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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

John Ortberg

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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 decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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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 primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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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