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.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLLGod often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
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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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If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth.
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Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
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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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Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
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When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you’ll get to rest and relax until He says, ‘Go.
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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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[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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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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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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If we choose to be offended when we don’t get our own way, Then we’re going to live constantly on the edge of anger. But if we say to ourselves, ” A merry heart does good like a medicine,” It’ll make all the difference in the world.
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No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.
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Believing in grace is one thing. Living it is another.
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If God’s people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be – it must be – compassion.
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There is no counsel like God’s counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.
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Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
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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 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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One of the problems with worry is that it keeps you from enjoying what you have.
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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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The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
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Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity.
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If you never get criticized, chances are you aren’t getting anything done.
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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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The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.
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A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
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