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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

John Ortberg

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
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
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
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
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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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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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
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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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Employee Extrovert Himself Question

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