10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLToday is unique! It has never occurred and it will never be repeated. At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.
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Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it’s okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.
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Dream big don’t let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous. Keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don’t forget to laugh and enjoy the journey.
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Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
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[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.
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God doesn’t work on our timetable. He has a plan that He will execute perfectly and for the highest, greatest good of all, and for His ultimate glory.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
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People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change
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All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.
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Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God’s point of view.
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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God’s heavenly plan doesn’t always make earthly sense.
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Worry is assuming responsibilities that you cannot handle. They truth is, they are responsibilities that God never intended for you to handle, because they are His.
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Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.
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I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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