The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Anand Thakur
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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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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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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