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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.

John Ortberg

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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
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
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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