The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERGOver time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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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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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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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