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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

John Ortberg

At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
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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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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 who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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
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
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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 goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering

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