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The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

Rick Warren

If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.
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Irritate People Service Try Yourself
Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
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Feeling Greatness People
To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won’t be here long, so don’t get too attached.
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Attachment Best Compare Earth Forget Life Residence Temporary
Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
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Himself Life Purpose Yourself
Failure isn’t a character quality. It’s just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.
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Character Event Failure Quality Respond Yourself
Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.
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Failure Practice Reading Research Yourself
Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.
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Gift God Gratitude Yourself
God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you’re not.
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Acceptance Condition Effort God View Wasted Time Yourself
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.
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Conversation Greatness Prayer Run Word Yourself
Most of the time, it’s your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.
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Hold Talent Thinking Time Yourself
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
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Career Faith Service Yourself
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD Difficult moments, SEEK GOD Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD Painful moments, TRUST GOD Every moment, THANK GOD
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Difficult Happiness Moments Thankful
The purpose of influence is to “speak up for those who have no influence.” It’s not about you.
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Influence Talk Yourself
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
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Deep Despair Discover Journey Life Moments Transformation Valley
When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.
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Faith Feeling God Live Teaching Yourself
God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.
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God Life Person Protect Remove Run Yourself
I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
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Apology High Myself Power Service
For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can’t hold any back.
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Broken Heart God Pieces Yourself
Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.
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Feeling Important Insecurity Love Yourself
Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.
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Home Hope Man Ourselves Religious
The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
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Act Feeling Thinking Way Yourself
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
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Appearance Close God Live Small
Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you – your relationship with God.
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God Reality Relationship Security Yourself
God doesn’t owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I’ve found is that explanations don’t comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.
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Comfortable Explanation God Ourselves Present
Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
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Greatness Myself Prayer Word
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
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Contribution Life Yourself
Living by faith isn’t living with certainty. It’s trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
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Doubt Faith God Live Question Trust

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