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Living by faith isn’t living with certainty. It’s trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

Rick Warren

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
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
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God Hard Time Religious Yourself
Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.
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Choice Commitment Life Yourself
You can’t make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something.
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Learning Life Mistake 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
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
Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
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Act Greatness Service Small
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
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
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
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
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
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
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Appearance Close God Live Small
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
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
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
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
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Happiness Learning People Service
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
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
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
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
The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.
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Expectation God Responsibility 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
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
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
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
There’s a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.
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Chance Design History Life Planning Result Story

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