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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”

John Ortberg

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
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
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’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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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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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
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
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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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