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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

John Ortberg

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
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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
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
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 life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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
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
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner

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