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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

John Ortberg

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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
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
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Anand Thakur
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Anand Thakur
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Anand Thakur
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
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
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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God Himself Known Mysterious
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Anand Thakur
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Anand Thakur
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation

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