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The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

Rick Warren

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
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Happiness Learning People Service
God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
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Fresh God People Start Yourself
If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
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Activity Life Priority Wasted Time Yourself
Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.
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Choice Different God Insult Race
Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.
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Crowd Follow Lost
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
To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
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Forever Heart Life Value Vision Yourself
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
Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.
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Conversation Day God Meditation Prayer Start Talk 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
It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.
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Death Destiny Discover End God Identity Origin
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
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
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
Never let an impossible situation intimidate you. Let it motivate you – to pray more, trust more, expect more.
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Expectation Impossible Motivational Scare Situation Trust Yourself
If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.
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God Himself People Perfection
Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
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Build Defeat Give Up Integrity Pride Rejection Temptation 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
Most of the time, it’s your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.
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Hold Talent Thinking Time Yourself
If you are facing trouble right now, don’t ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what’s right.
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Face Learning Right Trouble Yourself
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
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God People Service Yourself
People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
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Character God Impression Interest People
Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
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Feeling Greatness People
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
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
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God Life Understand 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
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

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