"One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?"

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Source : Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.84, Multnomah

Steven Furtick

#Focus Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Wish Quotes

“The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed”

Source : Anita Roddick, Cheryl Rickman (2005). “The Small Business Start-up Workbook: A step-by-step guide to starting the business you've dreamed of”, p.227, Hachette UK
“When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.”
“He got the crib, so for the first few months of my life I had to sleep in the top dresser drawer, which I'm pretty sure isn't even legal.”
“The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.”
“When a small child... I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong.”
“For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.”
“A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.”

Source : "John Edgar Wideman Against the World" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2017.
“I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.”

Source : Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 17, 2010.

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