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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

John Ortberg

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
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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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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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
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
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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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 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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

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