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

John Ortberg

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
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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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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
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

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