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

John Ortberg

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
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
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
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
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
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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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