“Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you’re perfect, and walk into freedom.”
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Rick Warren
“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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Rick Warren
“If perfection was a requirement for friendship with God, we would never be able to be his friends. Fortunately, because of God’s grace, Jesus is still the “friend of sinners.”
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Rick Warren
“we are product of our past but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
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Rick Warren
“It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for.”
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Rick Warren
“A qualidade essencial para a liderança não é a perfeição, mas a credibilidade.”
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Rick Warren
“Eggs do not raise your cholesterol; they do just the opposite.”
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Rick Warren
“Betsy: "Do you have daddy issues, Warren?"
Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.”
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Rick Warren
“You can't grow strong without resistance.”
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Rick Warren
“You cannot make God stop loving you, because his love is based on who he is, not what you do. It is based on his character, not your conduct.”
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Rick Warren
“You, God, created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created. REVELATION 4:11 NLT The Lord takes pleasure in his people. PSALM 149:4 TEV”
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Rick Warren
“In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later.”
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Rick Warren
“Prayer lets you speak to God; meditation lets God speak to you. Both are essential to becoming a friend of God.”
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Rick Warren
“We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.”
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Rick Warren