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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.

John Ortberg

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
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 most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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.
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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
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
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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

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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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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