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

John Ortberg

We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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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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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
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

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