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“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“You can use your time to build bridges or walls. The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness. ”
― Rick Warren

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.”
― Beth Moore, So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

“You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.”
― Beth Moore, Esther: It's Tough Being a Woman

“True intimacy with God always brings humility.”
― Beth Moore

“The purpose exceeds the pain.”
― Beth Moore

“Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.”
― Beth Moore

“Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.”
― Beth Moore

“When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.”
― Beth Moore

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.”
― Lisa Bevere, Fight Like a Girl: The Power of Being a Woman

“Satan had made it his aim to distract you from who you really are and what the purpose of your life really is. It is his focused objective to lure you out of the path of strength, life, and authority and into a course of intentional destruction.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Our God loves triumphing over what looks impossible; therefore, he calls an ambush without any means of escape "an opportunity"!”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.”
― Lisa bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“God's word is a God sword.”
― Lisa Bevere, Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“It is in changing that we find purpose.”
― Heraclitus