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

John Ortberg

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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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
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
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
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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