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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

John Ortberg

The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Anand Thakur
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision

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