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Evangelical Christianity in the United States is often characterized by a deep desire to have “Christianity” pervade our culture but not have Christ permeate our being.
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“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” - C.S. Lewis
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Students at a Georgia High School pranked their principal by staging a fake fight to wish him a happy birthday.
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Athletes, Your actions speak so loud that I can’t hear what you are saying. Your film is a silent movie that tells me all about your life. @GWTrailblazerFB @Coach_Andy_1 @PAGMETER @VTD_Sports @SWAG_merco
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As a leader, you will eventually realize...
You cannot control outcomes.
You can only control your actions.
That is enough.
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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.
—James Baldwin
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Overprotected kids become unprepared adults.
Dawn Staley said it.
And every parent needs to hear it.
Here's what parents get wrong about raising resilient kids.
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"Bad habits have a cost.
Good habits have a price.
Either way you have to pay.
The meaningful things- we pay for before.
The foolish things- we pay for after."
Winners pay upfront (sacrifice, effort, discipline).
Everyone else pays later (regret).
That’s the difference.
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“No one is good at everything.
That's just not the way life works.
We can really continue to improve our weaknesses if we are humble enough to identify them.
What you know is very limited and what you don't know is limitless,” Tom Brady
Learning doesn’t require comfort.
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“Anybody that's gonna push you loves you more than anybody that's gonna let you stay the same."
"When we coach you, when we love you up…that's not me personally attacking you. That's trying to help our team be better. That's trying to help you be better.”
🎥@HornetsReddit
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“Young people, you need to bet on yourself.
If you think you're that good, you don't need a handout. You just allow your work to speak for itself."
Do not ask to be chosen.
Work until you cannot be ignored.
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Tom Brady: “You need coaches that push you outside your comfort zone because that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop self confidence and self esteem. They push you to deal with failure.”
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Tournament Tessa 😤
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