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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

John Ortberg

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
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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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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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 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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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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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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
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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
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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