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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

John Ortberg

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
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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
The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

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