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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

John Ortberg

Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
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
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
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
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Anand Thakur
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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Anand Thakur
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Anand Thakur
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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

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