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

John Ortberg

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to 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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
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 does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

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