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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.

John Ortberg

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
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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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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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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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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