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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.

John Ortberg

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
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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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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
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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

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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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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