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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

John Ortberg

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
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
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
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
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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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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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
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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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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