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Make your life about something bigger than your life.

John Ortberg

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
JOHN ORTBERG

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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
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
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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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
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.

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