Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLFocusing 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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Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man’s or a woman’s shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being’s day, week, or life.
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Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
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Friends make life a lot more fun.
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Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
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One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable.
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Let`s choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and belief and compassion.
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
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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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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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Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.
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People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets
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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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God’s heavenly plan doesn’t always make earthly sense.
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Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.
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