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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

John Ortberg

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 primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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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
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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