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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

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
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
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
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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God Himself Known Mysterious
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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

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