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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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The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
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Best Expression Life Love Philosophy Time
God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.
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God Love Ourselves People Teaching
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 don’t bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.
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Ability Glory Happiness Hide Yourself
You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
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Focus Fulfill Life Planning Purpose
Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
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Feeling Greatness People
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
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Advertise Kindness Need Pain People
God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
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Earth God Life Spiritual Ultimate Yourself
You can’t make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something.
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Learning Life Mistake Yourself
When you use your life for God’s glory, everything you do can become an act of worship
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Act Glory God Life Worship Yourself
Gods plan isn’t a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.
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God Life Planning See Time Yourself
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
Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.
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Best Live Surrender Way Work
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
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Contribution Life Yourself
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
Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.
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Consequence Earth Eyes Forever Measurement Time

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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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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