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

John Ortberg

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
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
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
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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

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