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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

John Ortberg

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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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day 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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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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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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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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