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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

John Ortberg

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
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
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
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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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERG

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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

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