Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Anand Thakur
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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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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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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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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