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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.

John Ortberg

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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 only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality

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