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

John Ortberg

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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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
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
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 only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
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
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth

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