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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

John Ortberg

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
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
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Anand Thakur
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
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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Anand Thakur
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Anand Thakur
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
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Anand Thakur
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Anand Thakur

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

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