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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

John Ortberg

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
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
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
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

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