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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

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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

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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