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The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

Andy Stanley

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior.
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Behavior Faith Measurement Spiritual
80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems … they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.
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Behavior People Problem
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
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God Long Past Sorry Tell
One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
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Christian Faith Simple
It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.
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Break Change Day Direction Generosity Habit Prayer Yourself
What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.
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God Patience Time
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
Leaders make things better and that requires change.
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Christian Leader Leadership
Where there’s no progress, there’s no growth. If there’s no growth, there’s no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.
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Change Environment Growth Life Progress
When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
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Challenge Generosity Offend People Yourself
Good people don’t go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.
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Forgiveness Goodness Heaven People
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Differences Make
Actions don’t only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
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Action Loud Talk Word
Direction, not intention determines your destination.
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Destination Determination Direction Yourself
Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
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God Himself Side
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
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Communication Complex Information People
Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
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Emotion Jesus People Side Take
Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.
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Difference Different Dreams Vision
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible – that is just cheating. It’s cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn’t how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
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Book Cheat People
Progress requires change.
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Change One Liner Progress
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
We’re so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.
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Deep Effort Gratitude Realization Recognition Rich
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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Coach Faster Own
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
If you want to know if I’m a Godly man, follow me home.
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Follow God Home Man Myself
The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.
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Gone Leader Moving
Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God’s commands regarding sexual purity.
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Broken Dream People

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

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