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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

The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth

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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