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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

John Ortberg

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
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
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Anand Thakur
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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Anand Thakur
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Anand Thakur
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Anand Thakur
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Anand Thakur
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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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Anand Thakur

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

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