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The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
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San Angelo
Texas
Path
Choices
Voice
Past
Doe
Take
Prison
Life
Destiny
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Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.
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Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.
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Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
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You are saved, not because of what you do, but because of what Christ did. And you are special, not because of what you do, but because of whose you are. And you are his. And because we are his, let's forget the shortcuts and stay on the main road. He knows the way. He drew the map. He knows the way home.
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To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.
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Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.
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God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.
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