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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

John Ortberg

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
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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
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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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