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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

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
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
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
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
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

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