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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

John Ortberg

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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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 only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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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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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly

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