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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.

John Ortberg

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
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
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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
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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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