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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

John Ortberg

I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
JOHN ORTBERG

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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
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
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

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