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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

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
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
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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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

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