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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.

John Ortberg

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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
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
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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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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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.

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