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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

John Ortberg

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
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
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself

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