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In deep pain, people don’t need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

Rick Warren

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
Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
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Feeling Greatness People
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
Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable.
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Change Control Misery Past Wasted Time Worry
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
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Contribution Life 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
Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
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Establishment Forever God Help Relationship
The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.
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Expectation God Responsibility Yourself
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
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
The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
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Deep Distance Himself Level
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
If you prayed as much as you worry, you’d have nothing to worry about.
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Prayer Worry Yourself
Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.
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Delay God Himself Planning Trust
God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
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Book Circumstance God Problem Purpose Reading Scripture
We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
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Ourselves Past Prison Product

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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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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