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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.

John Ortberg

Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
JOHN ORTBERG

Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
JOHN ORTBERG

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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
JOHN ORTBERG

Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
JOHN ORTBERG

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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
JOHN ORTBERG

Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation

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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