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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

John Ortberg

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
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
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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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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
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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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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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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself

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