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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

John Ortberg

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
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
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
JOHN ORTBERG

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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Cure God Sin Vision
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.

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