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We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

Andy Stanley

Generosity won’t happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first.
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Generosity Giving Writing
Learning never takes place while you’re talking.
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Learning Place Talk Yourself
Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.
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Determined Leader Need
It isn’t about who is ‘for’ or ‘against’ you, it’s about who you are for.
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Feel Inspiration Motivation People
Any fear associated with giving to God’s kingdom is irrational. It’s on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
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Farmer Fear God Himself Irrational Lose
One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.
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Accomplishment Break God Ignorance Law Oneself Principle Wisdom
You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you.
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God Ideas Influence People Yourself
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God’s ability to free you from the past.
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Ability Freedom Story Yourself
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
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God Myself Religious Surrender Trust Yourself
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
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
If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we’ve got to do things that no one else is doing.
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Inspirational Motivational People Reach
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
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Himself Man Obedience Refuse Repeat Sincere Woman
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
Telling someone they’re wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what’s right.
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Difference Inspirational Leadership Right Wrong Yourself
Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.
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Path Problem Right Solution
Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.
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Everyone Leader Shut Wonder
We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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Christian Leadership Volunteer
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
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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Generosity Life Value Yourself
When I count other people’s blessings I lose sight of mine.
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Blessing Lose Myself People
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Alone Application Holy Knowledge
Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.
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Behavior Faith Measurement Spiritual
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Difference Existence Point
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
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
God’s extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
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Christian Extravantly God Religious

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