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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

John Ortberg

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
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
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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
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
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

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