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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

John Ortberg

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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
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
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
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself

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