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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

John Ortberg

You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
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
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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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
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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