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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

John Ortberg

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
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
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself

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