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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

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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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 life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
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
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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