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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Anand Thakur
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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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