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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.

John Ortberg

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
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.

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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.

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