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Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Rick Warren

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Rick Warren
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 28
Pastor
Theologian
Writer
San Jose
California
Richard Duane Warren
Chemistry
Illness
Identity
Character

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Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.
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Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.
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Every church is flawed. Still, you'd better learn to love it since it's the only group Jesus said he's taking to Heaven.
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The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, go to hell.
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Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed
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Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
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Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.
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That's the big difference between Christianity and other religions. The difference between Works and Grace or Do and Done.
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Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God mediation lets God speak to you.
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God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
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Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It’s what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!
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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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Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
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If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.
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Let your broken heart create an open heart
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Many people spend their lives trying to create a lasting legacy on earth. They want to be remembered when they're gone. Yet, what ultimately matters most will not be what others say about your life but what God says.
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America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to live for you. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to put aside your selfish ambition.
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Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.
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Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.
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Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.
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