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

John Ortberg

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
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
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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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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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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