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

John Ortberg

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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 reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need

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