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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.

John Ortberg

The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
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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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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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
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
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart

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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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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