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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

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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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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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
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious

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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