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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

John Ortberg

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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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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