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

John Ortberg

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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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
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often

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