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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

John Ortberg

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
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Anand Thakur
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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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
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
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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Anand Thakur
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
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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Anand Thakur
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

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