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

John Ortberg

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
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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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
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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 most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God 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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

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