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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

John Ortberg

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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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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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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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
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time

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