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" I believe we live in a love-starved society. Everywhere you go there are probably people who haven't had the right kind of love in their lives. "

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" When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.' "

" Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me. "

" Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private. "

" I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life. "

" I tell people, and it's the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won't make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won't make you a servant of Christ. "

" One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have. "

" Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not. "

" It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God's will. "

" I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God. "

" Life isn't fair, but God is. "

" It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire. "

" In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful. "

" I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them. "

" It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it. "

" Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway. "

" My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not. "

" Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us. "

" I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success. "

" Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word. "

" I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with. "

" I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be. "

" Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings. "

" Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths. "

" Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul. "

" Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing. "

" Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed! "

" Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God. "

" We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do. "

" What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him. "

" I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us. "