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Make your life about something bigger than your life.

John Ortberg

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
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
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.

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