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If you try to serve people, it impresses them. If you try to impress people it irritates them.

Rick Warren

If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.
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God Himself People Perfection
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
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He’s working on you, too.
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Butterfly Change Diamond Gemstone God Himself Pressure Time Work
There is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you. You could try, but you simply can’t do it – because his love for you is based upon his character and not on anything you do or say or feel.
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Character Feeling God Love Simplicity Try Yourself
Since God intends to make you like Jesus, he will take you through the same experiences Jesus went through. That includes loneliness, temptation, stress, criticism, rejection, and many other problems.
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Experience God Lonely Problem Rejection 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 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
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
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Bridge Humility People Pride
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
You can’t make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something.
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Learning Life Mistake 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
You are as close to God as you choose to be.
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Choice God 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
While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.
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Experience Learning People Wisdom
Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
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Development Life Opportunity Problem Respond Yourself
One day it’s all going to be clear. It’s all going to make sense. You’re going to be able to say, “So that’s why God allowed that in my life!” Until then, God wants you to trust him.
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Allow God Himself Life Mystery Trust Yourself

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