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Make your life about something bigger than your life.


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Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.



The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.



If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.



Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.



What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.



The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.



Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.



Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.



When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.



I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.





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She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.




If you can accomplish any great task being absorbed in it and that too without any expectations, believe me, that one act of yours will make you a "historical person".

If you can accomplish any great task being absorbed in it and that too without any expectations, believe me, that one act of yours will make you a "historical person".



Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.




To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.



The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.



Its almost Thanksgiving! A day when you get to hear your extended family use racial slurs for groups are not taking away their jobs.

Its almost Thanksgiving! A day when you get to hear your extended family use racial slurs for groups are not taking away their jobs.



There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.




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