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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.

John Ortberg

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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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
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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
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
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
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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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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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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