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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.

John Ortberg

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Anand Thakur
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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Anand Thakur
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Anand Thakur
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Anand Thakur

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.

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