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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

John Ortberg

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

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