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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

John Ortberg

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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
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
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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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
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike 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

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