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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

John Ortberg

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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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Anand Thakur
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Anand Thakur
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
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
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Anand Thakur
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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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
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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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Anand Thakur
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation

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