Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERGIt’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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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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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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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