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

John Ortberg

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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Anand Thakur
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
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Anand Thakur
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Anand Thakur
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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Anand Thakur
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Anand Thakur
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Anand Thakur
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself

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

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