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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

John Ortberg

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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