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Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced you're taught it.
Charles R. Swindoll
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Charles R. Swindoll
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: October 18
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As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.
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Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.
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Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.
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When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.
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We are in charge of our attitudes.
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When Christ becomes our central focus, contentment replaces our anxiety as well as our fears and insecurities.
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God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, Be still and know that I am God!
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An anniversary says, Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments.
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No marriage is too dead for the Lord to restore.
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Next time you're faced with a credit-purchase decision, wait. Don't say no necessarily. Just wait. I challenge you to present your need to the Lord before presenting it to a bank, and see what He does with it.
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You can choose to be a drag and a burden, or an inspiration and encouragement.
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To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.
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No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.
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Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.
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Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.
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When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.
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Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.
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Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.
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Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned
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God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.
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