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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.

John Ortberg

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
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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
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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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
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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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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