Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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