#inspiratio

So what do you do when you are stuck? The first thing I do when I am stuck is pray. But I’m not talking about a quick, Help me Lord, Sunday’s a comin’ prayer. When I get stuck I get up from my desk to head for my closet. Literally. If I‘m at the office I go over to a corner that I have deemed my closet away from home. I get on my knees and remind God that this was not my idea, it was His… None of this is new information to God… Then I ask God to show me if there is something He wants to say to prepare me for what He wants me to communicate to our congregation. I surrender my ideas, my outline and my topic. Then I just stay in that quiet place until God quiets my heart… Many times I will have a breakthrough thought or idea that brings clarity to my message. . . Like you, I am simply a mouthpiece. Getting stuck is one way God keeps me ever conscious of that fact. ↗

— Andy Stanley

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Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever. ↗

— Mark Batterson

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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. ↗

— Bill Wilson

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The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique. ↗

— Steven Brust

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The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#evolution #inspirational #learning #life #motivational

It is better to light a candle than to curse the dark ↗

— K'naan

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The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy... ↗

— Jim Rohn

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