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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

John Ortberg

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Anand Thakur
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
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
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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Anand Thakur
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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
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
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need

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