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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.

John Ortberg

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
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World

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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