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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

John Ortberg

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
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
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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
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

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