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1 " The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them. "
― John Ortberg , The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People
2 " True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. "
3 " ...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way. "
4 " ...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself. "
5 " Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness. "
6 " Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity. "
7 " We must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic. "
8 " People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity. – Thomas Kelly "
9 " We are not the passive victim of others' opinions. Their opinions are powerless until we validate them. "
10 " We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity. "
11 " It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. "
12 " Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have. "
13 " For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. "
14 " This was the great irony of his day: The 'righteous' were more damaged by their righteousness than the sinners were by their sin. "
15 " There is an immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something. "
16 " True confession is not just an exchange of information; it also involves entering into the pain of the person we have hurt and entering into God's pain over sin. "
17 " ...confession means saying that somewhere in the mix was a choice, and the choice was made by us, and it does not need to be excused, explained, or even understood. The choice needs to be forgiven. "
18 " If we want to follow someone, we can't go faster than the one who is leading. "
19 " You don't know how many people have been strengthened because you asked God to encourage them; how many people have been healed because you prayed for their bodies; how many spiritual runaways have come home because you prayed for their souls. None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors. "
20 " God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it--except one. And he was the Messiah. "
