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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.

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
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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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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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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