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

John Ortberg

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
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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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
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
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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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
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
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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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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