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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

John Ortberg

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
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Anand Thakur
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
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Anand Thakur
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Anand Thakur
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Anand Thakur
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Anand Thakur
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Anand Thakur

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