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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

John Ortberg

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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