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Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

Rick Warren

The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
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Deep Distance Himself Level
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
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Gift Greatness Time Yourself
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too.
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Butterfly Change Diamond Gemstone God Himself Pressure Time Work
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
You’ll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.
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God Himself Stop Success Try Yourself
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
You are as close to God as you choose to be.
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Choice God 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
Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.
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Forever Greatness Life Yourself
In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.
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Deep Logic Pain People Yourself
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.
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Build Character Moral Opportunity Potential Problem Spiritual
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 first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
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God Stop Worry Yourself
If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you’d have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.
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Argument Complain Mindset Peace Prayer Yourself
God doesn’t intend for you to handle all the pain and stress in your life by yourself. We were wired for each other. We need each other.
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Each Other God Life Pain Stress
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.
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Activity Fake Mask Pretend Yourself
Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. You expect him to keep his promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.
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Best Faith God Impossible Life Necessary Trust Yourself
Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
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Establishment Forever God Help Relationship
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
People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
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Message Ourselves People Prayer Refusal Rejection
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.
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Day Greatness Life Opportunity Surround Time
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
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Contribution Life Yourself
Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.
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Feeling Important Insecurity Love Yourself
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
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Advertise Kindness Need Pain People
The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.
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Endurance Forever Pain Reward Secret Temporary Yourself
Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.
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God Light Myself Need Warning Worry
Don’t’ call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
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Call Education Failure Ourselves

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