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God’s extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

Andy Stanley

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
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Education God Ignorance Virtue Wisdom
Success is remaining faithful to the process God has laid out for you.
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Faith God Success Yourself
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
Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!
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Accountable Leadership Temporary Yourself
Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.
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Celebration God Leverage Yourself
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink.
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Ink Planning Vision Writing
Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.
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Application Christian Holy
Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.
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Determination Direction Friendship Life Quality Yourself
Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.
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Expression Hope Jesus Vehicle World
The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.
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Act Behavior Expectation
The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
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Generosity Life Value Yourself
God, I want what you want more than I want what I want.
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God Myself Religious Surrender Trust Yourself
My hope is not in riches but in him who richly provides.
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Hope Myself Rich
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
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
Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?
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Line People Thankful Time
There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.
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Character Judgement Quiz Test
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
Don’t be fair, be engaged.
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Active Engaged Fair
Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.
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Emotion Jesus People Side Take
The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
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Love Start Stay Submission
Maintaining peace with God is more important than keeping pace with someone else.
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God Important Maintain Oneself Peace
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
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
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
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Giving Investment Sacrifice
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
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Better Differences Make
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

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