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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

John Ortberg

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
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
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
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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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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
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself

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