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The church is in the hope business.

John Ortberg

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
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
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
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 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
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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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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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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The church is in the hope business.

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