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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

John Ortberg

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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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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
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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