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01c. 1969 AD

It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.

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02c. 1969 AD

If you really want to get good at anything, you've got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

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03c. 1969 AD

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

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04c. 1969 AD

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical

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05c. 1969 AD

Ryan-chasers have a life wish. They live life to the fullest because they are willing to look foolish.

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06c. 1969 AD

At its core, sinfulness is selfishness. It's enthroning yourself - your desires, your needs, your plans - above all else. You may still seek God, but you don't seek Him first. You seek Him second or third or seventh. You may sing "Jesus at the center of it all," but what you really want is for people to bow down to you as you bow down to Christ. It's a subtle form of selfishness that masquerades as spirituality, but it's not Christ-centric. It's me-centric. It's less about us serving His purposes and more about Him serving our purposes.

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07c. 1969 AD

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness...There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person....Our fundamental problem is that we are selfish. Marriage is the means whereby God eradicates our selfishness because it is not about "me" anymore, i t is about "we.

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08c. 1969 AD

The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.

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09c. 1969 AD

...if you give all of yourself to God, you can ask and expect that God will give all of Himself to you because that's precisely what He wants to do. We have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we're not all in!

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10c. 1969 AD

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself. That's why God cannot fill you with His Spirit. But if you will empty yourself, if you will die to self, you'll be a different person by the time you reach the last page of this book.

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11c. 1969 AD

...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

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12c. 1969 AD

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

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13c. 1969 AD

I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.

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14c. 1969 AD

Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.

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