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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

John Ortberg

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
JOHN ORTBERG

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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
JOHN ORTBERG

Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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
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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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
JOHN ORTBERG

Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

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