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Refuse to let your situation determine your attitude.

Charles R. Swindoll

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.
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Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant.
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Feeling Forget Important Problem Worry Worth
We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.
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Choice Exercise God Himself Natural Spiritual Thinking Trust
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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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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Children Day Family Live Memories Mother Ourselves
When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.
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Acceptance Control Discover Divine Dry Fact God Hard Hope Season Yourself
Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don’t waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.
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It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day – not I.
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Control Day God Help Myself Remember
We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.
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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
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No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.
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No pressure is greater than God’s power.
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We aren’t just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose
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Earth Inspirational Love Place Purpose Reason Religion Religious Worth
Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn’t lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.
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Discipline Failure Greatness Investment Moments Ourselves Prayer Wind
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
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Build Character Family Live Place Principle
God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.
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People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.
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Beautiful Flower Garden God Himself Intimacy People Relationship
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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Inspirational Mad Religion Right Yourself
No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.
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Death Faith God Marriage Relationship
If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don’t you be bothered with him – leave him at the throne.
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Difficult God Himself Love Person Prayer Yourself
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
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Achievement Attitude Big Development Excellence Habit Yourself
Let`s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.
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Attitude Belief Choice Compassionate Faith Joy
God does not dispense strength and encouragement like a druggist fills your prescription. The Lord doesn’t promise to give us something to take so we can handle our weary moments. He promises us Himself. That is all. And that is enough.
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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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God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.
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Dependent God Learning Ourselves Religion Strength Suffering
We can’t solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.
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Face Faith God Himself Problem Safety Time Trust

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