Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Anand Thakur
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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