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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.

Charles R. Swindoll

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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Believe Complication Eyes Himself Human Lesson Limitation Ourselves Simplicity Son Word
We shouldn’t deny the pain of what happens in our lives. We should just refuse to focus only on the valleys.
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Focus Live Ourselves Pain
Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.
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Believe Different Grace Life Live
God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.
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Demand God Goodness Himself Life Pressure Strength Win
The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.
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Accomplishment God Greatness Himself Impossible Situation Work
When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.
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Beautiful Break God Hard Time Hope Inspirational Music Open Optimistic Way
Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person’s day, week, or life.
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Change Day Encouragement Inspirational Life Person
The Lord delights to surprise us with His goodness, if only we will unlock the door of obedience with the key of faith – which He has given – and then push it open and walk through.
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Door Faith Goodness Happiness Himself Key Walk
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
Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
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Direction Discipline God Peace Religion Strength Wisdom Yourself
Don’t expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.
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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
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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Attitude Change Fact Happiness Inspirational Ourselves Past People Play
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
Focusing intently on Christ naturally results in a lifestyle of increasingly greater selflessness. And it has another benefit. Gazing on Christ gives us greater ability to look past life’s trials and remain calm in the midst of what others would call chaos.
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The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.
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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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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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