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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.

John Ortberg

Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
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
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Anand Thakur
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
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Anand Thakur
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
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Anand Thakur
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Anand Thakur
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Anand Thakur
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality

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