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

John Ortberg

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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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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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
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 Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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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
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
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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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
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom

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