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

John Ortberg

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
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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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
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing

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