“Sooner or later, you are going to learn, just as I did, there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” – The Matrix
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“It is no use traveling anywhere to preach or teach unless our actual walking of our own life’s challenging path is our most powerful preaching and teaching.” – St. Francis of Assisi
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“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again and again and again. We just keep walking, no matter what else is happening. To make a deep mental path, we must practice over and over and over and over again thinking the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” – Henry David Thoreau
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“There is no ‘path to’ Happiness. Happiness ‘is’ the path. There is no ‘path to’ Love. Love ‘is’ the path. There is no ‘path to’ Peace. Peace ‘is’ the path. Be happy, loving, and peaceful right now, without reason, simply because you can, if you’d like – or you never will be at all. Practice in walking the path will teach you this, that the dedicated path IS the destination, the sought after destination IS the path.” – Dan Millman, in The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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I AM the PATH, the TRUTH, and the ENERGY of LIFE – Jesus in John 14:6 in The Voice
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“Anyone who has finally discovered who God has made them to be would never want to be anyone else.”
“When you avoid ‘the battle you were born for, you’ll face ‘a battle you’re not equipped for’.”
“Power is when you catch a wave. Authority is when you start the wave.”
“If you don’t live by the praises of men, you surely won’t die by their criticisms.”
“You will always have ‘influence’ to the exact same level you have ‘hope.’”
— above 5 by Bill Johnson
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“Once you understand your identity in Christ and start living in that reality then you no longer ‘do outreach.’ You are already ‘reached out’ by definition, because it’s part of who you are. It’s not a program telling you what we do, it’s who you are.”
“When you fully grasp your value and worth to God by your identity in Him then you’ll see the value and worth of others automatically, without strain or concern about gain.”
“I’m not on the Earth to be well-loved by people. I’m on the Earth to love people well.”
— above 3 by Dan Mohler
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“I used to want to fix people (so that I knew I would be OK), but now I just want to be with them (while God does the fixing of all of us).” – Bob Goff, in Love Does (with my additions)
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A Reminder from Henri Nouwen that we are Beloved and Called:
Jesus was truly free. His freedom was rooted in his spiritual awareness that he was the Beloved Child of God. He knew in the depth of his being that he belonged to God before he was born, that he was sent into the world to proclaim God’s love, and that he would return to God after his mission was fulfilled. This knowledge gave him the freedom to speak and act without having to please the world and the power to respond to people’s pains with the healing love of God. That’s why the Gospels say: “Everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him because power came out of him that cured them all” (Luke 6:19). (Note that he did not “use force,” but “power came out of him.”)
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People don’t care about how much you know until they know how much you care.
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And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. – John 8:32
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We act, or fail to act, not in accordance with the “truth,” but with the “truth” as we believe it to be.
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You won’t see it until you believe it! Belief without evidence ====> FAITH
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For we live by believing and not by seeing. – 2 Corinthians 5:7
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Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. -Romans 12:2
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Cognitive dissonance is the insistence upon a certain way of thinking or looking at information despite information to the contrary…
Cognitive dissonance will propel you to your dreams or keep you where you are.
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Nothing much happens until what “can be” is more attractive than what currently is.
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Pessimist ===> Permanent and Pervasive (F on test ex)
Optimist ===> Temporary and Specific
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Your thoughts determine your future
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“The greatest way for a man to live with honor in this world is to be the person he pretends to be.” – Socrates
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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
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For I want to use the authority the Lord has given me to lift you up, not tear you down.” – St. Paul
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Make me strong, not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy: myself. – Native American Prayer
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It’s not just in some of us: it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fears, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Who you are…can be no better or worse than the thoughts you entertain in your head. Who you are emotionally can never transcend your level of thinking. Your thought process is a ceiling beyond which you cannot aspire. Your brain is no stronger than your weakest thought, and your character no more virtuous than your most private reflection. Everything about us is constantly being shaped by the stream of our ideas. – A. Hart
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“Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is; treat a man as he can and should be, and he will become as he can and should be.” – Goethe
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Sarcasm – Greek word meaning, “tearing of flesh”
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Don’t you realize that whatever you choose to obey becomes your master? – Romans 6:16
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“You can never enjoy the things money can buy until you possess the things money can’t buy.” – Dr. Tony Evans
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Don your own work well, and then you will have something to be proud of. But don’t compare yourself with others. We each must carry our own load. – Gal 6:4-5 CEV
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Say what you WANT, not what you don’t want.
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“Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.” – Rick Warren
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Begin with the end in mind.
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“The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.” – Rev. Jessie Jackson
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“Our greatest fear as individuals…should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” – Tim Kizziar
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While minimizing risk reduces the chance of failure, it also reduces the chance of doing something very significant.
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Vision without action is merely a dream.
Action without vision is just wasting time.
Vision with action can change the world! – Joel Barker
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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which were prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. – Ephesians 2:10
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Then the Lord answered and said to me, “write down the vision I give to you so that those on the path of life can read and understand it. The vision may come to fulfillment slowly, but wait patiently. Eventually you will see the completion of the vision.” – Habakkuk 2:2-3
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What I say in faith without doubt causes things to happen! – Mark 11:23
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The truth has set me free! – John 8:31
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I have perseverance, character, and hope. – Romans 5:3-4
