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The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

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Rick Warren
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 28
Pastor
Theologian
Writer
San Jose
California
Richard Duane Warren
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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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Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.
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I believe that - love is a choice. I believe that we love, that if I'm forced to love you then I don't know that I've really loved you.
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To me, thinking with the mind of Christ means to be thinking in light of eternity, which is what Colossians is all about and that our lives are hid with Christ in God and that eternity, we're going to spend far more time on the other side of death than this side.
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Obviously there have been historically many different theories of the atonement and I think each of them has a part. But I think fundamentally it is the substitutionary understanding that God - Jesus took our payment and you can't understand.
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Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.
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Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. I don't know all the keys to success, but one key to failure is to try to please everyone.
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Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.
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