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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.

John Ortberg

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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The church is in the hope business.
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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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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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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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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