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Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

Andy Stanley

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
My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.
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Hope Myself Rich
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
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
Stop looking for solutions to problems and start looking for the right path.
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Path Problem Right Solution
Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
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God Important Maintain Oneself Peace
We don’t drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
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Discipline Prioritize Stanley
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 devote yourself to more than yourself … you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
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Devotion 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
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
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
Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
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Challenge Journey Leadership People Place
The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you
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Conscious Criticism God Work Yourself
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
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
Here’s something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, “Why should I let you into heaven?” how would you answer?
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Christian God Religious
Don’t be fair, be engaged.
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Active Engaged Fair
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
People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.
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Interest People True Work
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
My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.
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Christian Food Kids Leadership
The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed – they died for what they claim to have seen.
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Believe Death Follow God See
The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
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Goal Navigate Uncertainty
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
A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.
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Choice Difference Fools Right Wrong
If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
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Difficult Old Originate Teaching

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