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

John Ortberg

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Anand Thakur
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
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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 only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
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
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True

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