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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.

John Ortberg

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
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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
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
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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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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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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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