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80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

Andy Stanley

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: ‘There is no God’ or ‘There is no money’?
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Anxiety Creation God Himself Money Statement
You will never maximize your potential in any area without coaching. It is impossible. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone else. But without outside input you will never be as good as you could be.
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Area Goodness Impossible Potential Yourself
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
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Christian God Religious
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
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Behavior Creation People Problem System Yourself
Actions don’t only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
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Action Loud Talk Word
What percentage should you give? I tell people to start with 10 percent because the Bible writers have a lot to say about the tithe, which means, “tenth.” For some people, that’s extremely uncomfortable. But so is a colonoscopy, and those save countless lives.
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Give Mean People Percentage
I can’t make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.
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Arrange Fall In Love God Myself People
There’s a monumental difference in believing in God and believing God.
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Believe Difference God
Don’t be fair, be engaged.
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Active Engaged Fair
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Compassionate Kindness Oneself Yourself
People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don’t plan not to.
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Deep Live Mess People Planning
It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
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God Support Yourself
If you devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
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Devotion Yourself
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.
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Believe Criticism Imagination Oneself Treat
My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
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Christian Food Kids Leadership
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
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Act Change Courage Extraordinary
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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Coach Faster Own
What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
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Determine Fear Future Give
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Better Give Up Investment Sacrifice
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
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Goal Navigate Uncertainty
People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.
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Different Direction One People
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
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Education God Ignorance Virtue Wisdom
Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.
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Believe Drama Minute Wall
No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they’ve lost they’re ability to recognize that they’re rich.
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Challenge Matter People
When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that’s when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
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Direction Happiness People Point Smart Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
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God Grace Resistance Time Yourself

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