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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.

Rick Warren

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
Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.
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Advertise Kindness Need Pain People
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 is much more concerned about your character than your career, because you will take your character into eternity, but not your career.
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Career Character Forever God Yourself
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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Comfortable Explanation God Ourselves Present
To make the most of your life you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
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Forever Heart Life Value Vision Yourself
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
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Experience Help Pain Wasted Time Yourself
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
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
Don’t’ call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
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Call Education Failure Ourselves
God’s LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end.
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Beginning End God Love Ocean Yourself
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
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
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God People Service Yourself
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.
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Build Character Moral Opportunity Potential Problem Spiritual
The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God.
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Experience God Mistake Religion Seek Worship
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

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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