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

John Ortberg

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Anand Thakur
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Anand Thakur
$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Anand Thakur
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Anand Thakur
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Anand Thakur
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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Anand Thakur
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
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
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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

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