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

John Ortberg

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
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
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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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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
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
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.

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