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

John Ortberg

The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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.
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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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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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

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