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        There Are Two Things, The Actual And The Ideal. ... PROContributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007 (message contributor)
"There are two things, the actual and the ideal. To be mature is to see the ideal and live with the actual. To fail is to accept the actual and reject the ideal; and to accept only that which is ideal and refuse the actual is to be immature. Do not criticize the actuial because you have seen the ideal. Do not...
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