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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

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
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
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
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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
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
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Anand Thakur
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself

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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