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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.

John Ortberg

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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Anand Thakur
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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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.

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