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

John Ortberg

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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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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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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike 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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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
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
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
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
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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