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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

John Ortberg

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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our 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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
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 Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
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
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
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
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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