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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

John Ortberg

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
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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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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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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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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