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If Life is a Competition
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William Barclay
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If a man is forever concerned first and foremost with his own interests then he is bound to collide with others. If for any man life is a competition…then he will always think of other human beings as...
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Miroslav Volf
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Striving for excellence versus striving for superiority. Striving for excellence means striving to become better in some regard, to improve, or at least not to get worse, especially as we age;47 it is...
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Miroslav Volf
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The person striving for superiority is “always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinion of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgm...
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The #1 Disciple
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John Ortberg
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Matthew 6:25-34, Galatians 1:10, Philippians 2:3-4, Matthew 23:1-12, 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12, James 4:1-10, 1 Peter 5:1-11
Harold Kushner wrote about a very bright, driven pre-med student at a very competitive college. While traveling in the East the summer before his junior year, he met a guru who said, “Don’t you see yo...
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Ambition has no rest.
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The Two Runners
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Matthew 6:33, Colossians 3:23, Psalm 39:6, Luke 12:15, Acts 15:29, Matthew 5:14-16, Ephesians 2:10, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 16:24, Luke 9:62, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, James 1:12, Romans 8:16-17, Galatians 2:20
The true story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams, two British sprinters who qualified for the 1924 Olympic Games, illustrates two contrasting approaches to life and identity. Abrahams was driven by ...
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E. Stanley Jones
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- Ambition
We grow small trying to be great.
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Alain de Botton
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
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William Shakespeare
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- Ambition
“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
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Restlessnes Keeps the Pedal to the Metal
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Ryan P. Tinetti
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Habakkuk 2:5, James 3:16, Mark 8:36, Luke 12:15, Isaiah 57:20, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 John 2:16
Restlessness keeps the pedal to the metal. To offer a suggestive analogy in this vein: several years ago there was a recall on some Toyota vehicles. Evidently the cars would be given to sudden and unc...
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Chinese Proverb
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He who opens his heart for ambition closes it for the rest.
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Dave Harvey
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The career path for the Christian looks different than for others. We should not be hungry for her own name or unrestrained in our self-promotion. We don’t need to broker our future. The gospel remind...
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Without Applause, I die
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Ryan P. Tinetti
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James 3:16, 1 John 2:16, John 5:44, Matthew 6:1, Philippians 2:3
There’s undeniably a dark side to restless ambition, however. You can see it in dramatic fashion in the documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop , which follows the comedian on tour after he left the To...
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Benjamin Franklin
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- Ambition
- Satisfaction
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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Identity and Achievement at L'Arche
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Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Galatians 1:10, Philippians 2:3-4, Matthew 23:1-12, 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12, James 4:1-10, 1 Peter 5:1-11
All of us struggle with our own desires for accomplishment and ambition. Christians especially find it difficult to discern their own worldly ambitions vs. following Jesus’ comand to seek first the ki...
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Dave Harvey
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- Ambition
- Bearing Fruit
God loves good ambition. It brings him glory as he works through our desires to fulfill his purpose. God doesn’t need us, but amazingly he uses us. But to position us for fruitfulness, he’s continuall...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Joshua 1:6-9, Nehemiah 2:11-20, 1 Kings 19:19-21, Psalm 122:1, Romans 12:11
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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John Blanchard
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- Ambition
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, ...
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Dave Harvey
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- Ambition
- Emptying Ourselves
Most people think of ambition as climbing, upward mobility, always looking for step up (and willing to step on others to get it. But biblical ambition points in the other direction—the direction Chris...
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Salvador Dalí
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- Ambition
- Intelligence
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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22nd Sunday after Pentecost
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Jonathan Cornell
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Mark 10:35-45
Questions on the Road When we encounter today’s text, Jesus and the disciples continue to make their way from Capernaum to Jerusalem. According to Google Maps (the most trusted first century map appl...
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John Milton
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Matthew 5:5, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Galatians 5:19-21, 1 Peter 3:9, Philippians 2:3-4, Romans 12:19, Proverbs 16:18
But what will not Ambition and Revenge Descend to? Who aspires must down as low As high he sor’d, obnoxious first or last To basest things.
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The CEO & The Service Station Attendant
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John Ortberg
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Not too long ago, there was a CEO of a Fortune 500 company who pulled into a service station to get gas. He went inside to pay, and when he came out, he noticed his wife engaged in a deep discussion w...
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Dwight L. Moody
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- Ambition
- Fear of Failure
Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.
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Christian Maturity and Gentleness
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John E. Biersdorf
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Proverbs 15:1, 2 Timothy 2:24-25, Isaiah 42:3, Philippians 4:5, Galatians 5:22-23, Matthew 11:29
Compassion is expressed in gentleness. When I think of persons I know who model for me the depths of spiritual life, I am struck by their gentleness. Their eyes communicate the residue of solitary bat...
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Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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- Ambition
- Dangers of Success
When we’ve had a good year in our own kingdom, we aren’t necessarily looking for God’s Kingdom.
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Dave Harvey
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- Ambition
Godly ambition is gospel ambition. We dream because God rescued our corrupted, selfish ambitions and gave us the capacity to desire, dream, and work for his glory
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William Shakespeare
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- Ambition
“I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other.”
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A Successful Book & A Failed Political Campaign
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Ryan Holiday
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In his famous 1934 campaign for the governorship of California, the author and activist Upton Sinclair took an unusual step. Before the election, he published a short book titled I, Governor of Cal...
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John Stott
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- Ambition
Ambitions for self may be quite modest…Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never be modest. There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. ...