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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

John Ortberg

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Anand Thakur
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
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
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERG

Follow Identity
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often

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