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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.

John Ortberg

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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
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
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
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.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
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 not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
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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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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 problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity

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