The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Anand Thakur
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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