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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

John Ortberg

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERG

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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Improvement Planning Salvation
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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!
JOHN ORTBERG

God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
JOHN ORTBERG

Appliance God Yourself
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
JOHN ORTBERG

Goal Live Separate Time
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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

Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking

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