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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

John Ortberg

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
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
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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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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