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We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

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
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
Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.
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Crowd Follow Lost
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
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Bridge Humility People Pride
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
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Experience Help Pain Wasted Time 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
Even through such simple acts as telling the truth, being kind, and encouraging others, we bring a smile to God’s face.
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Act Encouragement Face Kind Simplicity Smile Truth
Life minus love equals zero.
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Equality Life Love One Liner
Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
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Greatness Myself Prayer Word
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.
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Acceptance Life Lying Majority Philosophy Right Truth
Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.
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Easy Fame Hard Popular Yourself
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
I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you.
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Believe Change Forever Invitation 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
You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time.
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God Time Yourself

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