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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

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
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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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.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
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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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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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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
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
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

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