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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

John Ortberg

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
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 reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

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