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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

John Ortberg

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
JOHN ORTBERG

Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
JOHN ORTBERG

Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERG

Follow Identity
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Anand Thakur
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
JOHN ORTBERG

Essence Hope Possible Transformation
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation

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