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Many people allow their need for other people’s approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

Rick Warren

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
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
There’s a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.
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Chance Design History Life Planning Result Story
If you prayed as much as you worry, you’d have nothing to worry about.
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Prayer Worry Yourself
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
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God Life Understand 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 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
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
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
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
Don’t’ call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
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Call Education Failure Ourselves
You can’t make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something.
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Learning Life Mistake Yourself
God’s ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
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Earth God Life Spiritual Ultimate Yourself
Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.
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Feeling Greatness People
The greatest gift you can give someone is your time.
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Gift Greatness Time Yourself
Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. You expect him to keep his promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.
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Best Faith God Impossible Life Necessary Trust Yourself
The more you care about the powerless, the more power you have. The more you serve those with no influence, the more influence God gives you. The more you humble yourself, the more you’re honored by others.
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Care Honor Humble Influence Power Service Yourself
If your activities don’t match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
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Activity Life Priority Wasted Time Yourself
Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service.
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Act Greatness Service Small
You cannot fulfil God’s purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
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Focus Fulfill Life Planning Purpose
Pride builds walls between people, humility builds bridges.
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Bridge Humility People Pride
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
God will never love you any less or more than he does right now because his love is based on who he IS,not what you’ve done.
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God Himself Love Yourself
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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Born Day Life Significance Spiritual
Worry is the warning light that shows I’ve stopped looking to God to meet my needs.
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God Light Myself Need Warning Worry
One day it’s all going to be clear. It’s all going to make sense. You’re going to be able to say, “So that’s why God allowed that in my life!” Until then, God wants you to trust him.
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Allow God Himself Life Mystery Trust Yourself
Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.
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Development Life Opportunity Problem Respond Yourself

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