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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

John Ortberg

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
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
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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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom

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