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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.

John Ortberg

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERG

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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
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
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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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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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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