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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

John Ortberg

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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
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
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

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