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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

John Ortberg

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Anand Thakur
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Anand Thakur
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
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Anand Thakur
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
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
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 Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Anand Thakur
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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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Anand Thakur
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

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