Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Anand Thakur
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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