Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
RICK WARRENWithout the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.
More Rick Warren Quotes
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God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too.
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Most of the time, it’s your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.
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God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.
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The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
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Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.
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You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
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The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.
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Because every day of your life was written on God’s calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.
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People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
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Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.
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We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.
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We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
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People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
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Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
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The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
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