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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

John Ortberg

Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
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
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

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

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