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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

John Ortberg

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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
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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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
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

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