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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.

John Ortberg

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
JOHN ORTBERG

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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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
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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
JOHN ORTBERG

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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
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

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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