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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

John Ortberg

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
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Anand Thakur
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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Anand Thakur
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Anand Thakur
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Anand Thakur
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life 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
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

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