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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

Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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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 wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
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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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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