If You Want to Get Out of the Boat You’ve Got to Walk on Water – John Ortberg
2 Laws that govern my life:
The Law of Cognition: I am what I think.
The Law of Exposure: My mind will think most about what it is most exposed to.
Research has shown that one’s thought life influences every aspect of one’s being. Whether we are filled with confidence or fear depends on the kind of thoughts that habitually occupy our minds.
People are astoundingly cavalier about the way they treat their minds.
Lord help me to do great things as though they were little since I do them with your power, and little things as though they were great since I do them in your name. Blaise Pascal
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
Two ways to look at risk: The gift is so valuable it can’t be risked. The gift is so valuable it must be risked.
I want my life to come as close as I can to realizing the goodness that God intended for it.
One of the most exciting spiritual adventures in life is helping another human being find God.
The most common command in the scriptures: FEAR NOT.
Avoiders become experts at "impression management" pretending to be what they think will be acceptable to others.
When you are in a situation that creates fear, but you face it head-on, you will feel a rush of satisfaction in knowing you displayed courage.
In any arena you are concerned about failure the single most destructive thing you can do is nothing.
One small step of action is worth a hundred internal pep talks.
If you really want to become a certain kind of person—a hopeful person focused on Christ—you must begin to think thoughts that will produce those characteristics.
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