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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

John Ortberg

Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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
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
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
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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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
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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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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Failure Mission Need
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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