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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

John Ortberg

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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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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 character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
JOHN ORTBERG

Employee Extrovert Himself Question
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

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