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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

John Ortberg

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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 character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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