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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.

John Ortberg

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
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
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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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.

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