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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.

Andy Stanley

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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Generosity Life Value Yourself
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Difference Existence Point
There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
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Character Judgement Quiz Test
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
I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
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Believe Group Preparation
Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
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Compassionate Kindness Oneself Yourself
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
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Courage Goodness Ideas Regret Simplicity
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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Coach Faster Own
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
Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.
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Blessing Himself Man Opportunity Passion Share Surround
Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.
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Blame Future Issues Ourselves
People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.
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Interest People True Work
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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Act Behavior Expectation
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
Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins and mine. Fairness would demand that we die for our own sins.
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Believe Christian Son

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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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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