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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

John Ortberg

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
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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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself

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