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

John Ortberg

Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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
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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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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 possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation

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