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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

John Ortberg

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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