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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

John Ortberg

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
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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness

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