A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLOne of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
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Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.
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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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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
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Acceptance is taking from God’s hand absolutely anything He gives, looking into His face in trust and thanksgiving.
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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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No pressure is greater than God’s power.
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Hope is like an anchor. Our hope in Christ stabilizes us in the storms of life, but unlike an anchor, it does not hold us back.
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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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God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.
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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
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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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Do you want to be wise? Choose wise friends
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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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Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.
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Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.
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