Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Anand Thakur
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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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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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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