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Because every day of your life was written on God’s calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

Rick Warren

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
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
God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.
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God Life Person Protect Remove Run 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
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
Be grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.
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Gift God Gratitude Yourself
Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren’t.
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Activity Fake Mask Pretend 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 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 best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
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Best Expression Life Love Philosophy Time
It is never too late to start growing.
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Growth Knowledge Start Wisdom
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
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
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Appearance Close God Live Small
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
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
Living by faith isn’t living with certainty. It’s trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
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Doubt Faith God Live Question Trust

Because every day of your life was written on God’s calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

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