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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.

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
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
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Advertise Kindness Need Pain People
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
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
Remember that your character is the sum total of your habits.
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Character Habit Ourselves Remember
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
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
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Appearance Close God Live Small
God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you’ve done.
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God Himself Love 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
Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.
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Easy Learning Love Nature Task
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
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Death Greatness Purpose Tragedy
We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
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Ourselves Past Prison Product
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
You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
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Focus Fulfill Life Planning Purpose
God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
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Book Circumstance God Problem Purpose Reading Scripture
Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
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Greatness Myself Prayer Word
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
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
Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.
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Deep Healing Hurt People Wound Yourself
You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.
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God Time Yourself
Many people allow their need for other people’s approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.
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Control Live Need People Thinking
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
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Gift Greatness Time Yourself
Love leaves legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth.
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Earth Endurance Impact Leaving Love People Treat
Life minus love equals zero.
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Equality Life Love One Liner
In pain, I’d rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.
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Answer God Pain Walk
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
God is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
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Career Character Forever God Yourself

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