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You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.

Andy Stanley

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
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
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
I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.
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Coach Faster Own
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
To understand why, submit and apply.
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Apply Submit Understand
In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
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Forgiveness Gift Hurt Myself Shadow Soul
You can’t lead without taking risk.
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Opportunity Risk Take
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
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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Block Love People
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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Break Up Dreams Family Sexuality
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.
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Concentration Elimination Secret
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
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Difference Existence Point
We ask our volunteers, “Do you work here?” They say, “Not yet.”
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Christian Leadership Volunteer
Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?
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God Hands Need Thinking Trust Yourself

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