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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

John Ortberg

Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
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.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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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 important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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
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
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

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