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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

John Ortberg

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
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
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

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