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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

John Ortberg

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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 who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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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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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

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