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Make your life about something bigger than your life.

John Ortberg

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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
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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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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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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
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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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 main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul

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