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    “Relying on the approval of others for our sense of self-worth is a direct contradiction of biblical truth.”
    ― Geri Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Woman: Eight Things You Have to Quit to Change Your Life
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    “For many Christians today, the love of God in Christ remains an intellectual belief we affirm rather than an experiential reality that transforms our thoughts and feelings about ourselves. As a result, we continue to look for love from other people in destructive ways.”
    ― Geri Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Woman: Eight Things You Have to Quit to Change Your Life
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    “Since God is ultimate truth, I unwittingly exclude him from my life whenever I fail to live in truth.”
    ― Geri Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Woman: Eight Things You Have to Quit to Change Your Life
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    “For example, I needed to die to defensiveness and social shame, to a critical spirit, to the need to be right, to my fears of vulnerability and weakness, and to people’s approval. For most of my life, the thought of openly admitting my mistakes and vulnerabilities felt worse than death.”
    ― Geri Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Woman: Eight Things You Have to Quit to Change Your Life
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    “Placing ourselves before the Mirror of Self-Confrontation means humbly acknowledging our shortcomings and the ways in which we are responsible for our own failures and disappointments.”
    ― Geri Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Woman: Eight Things You Have to Quit to Change Your Life
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    “We cannot achieve full personal freedom without full personal truth.”
    ― Geri Scazzero, I Quit!: Stop Pretending Everything Is Fine and Change Your Life
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    “the activity of my life (“doing” for Jesus) began to eclipse the contemplative dimension of my life (“being” with Jesus).”
    ― Peter Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World
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    “I was engaged in more activity for God than my being with God could sustain.”
    ― Peter Scazzero, The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World
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  • #9
    Priscilla Shirer
    “We pray because our own solutions don’t work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We pray because we’re serious about taking back the ground he has sought to take from us.”
    ― Priscilla Shirer, Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific, and Strategic Prayer
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  • #10
    “May God guide and lead us to a glorious future.”
    ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
    tags: advice, believe-and-achieve, believe-in-yourself, believers, blessed-life, christian, christian-life, confidence, destiny-fate, dreams-do-come-true, education, faith, future, god, guidance, guidance-of-god, imagination, lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations, leadership, leading, parenting-advice, reality-expectation, religion-spirituality, religions, seeking-god, seeking-truth, self-determination
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  • #11
    “Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.”
    ― Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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  • #12
    Steve Maraboli
    “How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, assumption, change, compassion, inspirational, judging, kindness, life, respect, success
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: artist, artistic, comparison, different, freedom, future, gifted, gifts, goals, god-s-plan, happiness, jobs, joy, love, on-the-edge, personality, radical, reach-higher, rise-above, road-less-traveled, screenplay, talents, television, unique
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  • #14
    Jen Hatmaker
    “A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves”
    ― Jen Hatmaker
    tags: fasting, minimalism, simplicity
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    Jen Hatmaker
    “I approach this project in the spirit of a fast: an intentional reduction, a deliberate abstinence to summon God's movement in my life. A fast creates margin for God to move.”
    ― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
    tags: fasting, reduction
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    Parker J. Palmer
    “Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch.”
    ― Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
    tags: self-care, the-self
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  • #17
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    ― Louis L'Amour
    tags: inspirational, writing
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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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  • #19
    Sivananda Saraswati
    “Blessed is he who keeps daily diary and compares the work of this week with that of the last, for he will realize God quickly!”
    ― Sivananda Saraswati, Sure Ways for Success in Life and God Realisation
    tags: diary-entry, god-realization, journal, journaling
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