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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

John Ortberg

Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.

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