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

John Ortberg

To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
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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$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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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.
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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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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul

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