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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.

Rick Warren

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
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
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
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
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
Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you – your relationship with God.
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God Reality Relationship Security Yourself
We become whatever we are committed to.
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Commitment Myself Transformation
In God’s garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit…
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Fruit Garden God Grace Tree
Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.
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End God Grace Hope
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
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Career Faith Service 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
When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.
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Abandonment Deep Himself Trust Way Worship
What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
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Contribution Life Yourself
The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.
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Act Feeling Thinking Way Yourself
A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.
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Acceptance Life Lying Majority Philosophy Right Truth
You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
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Focus Fulfill Life Planning Purpose

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 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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