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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

John Ortberg

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World

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