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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

John Ortberg

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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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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