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You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

Rick Warren

Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
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Distance Journey Travel Yourself
The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
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Deep Faith God Happiness Himself Loud Praise Time Trust
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 teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.
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God Love Ourselves People Teaching
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
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
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Appearance Close God Live Small
In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit…
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Fruit Garden God Grace Tree
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
Whenever you feel unimportant, unloved, or insecure, remember to who you belong.
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Feeling Important Insecurity Love Yourself
Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
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Himself Life Purpose Yourself
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
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God People Service 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
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
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Death Greatness Purpose Tragedy
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
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
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Happiness Learning People Service
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

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