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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

John Ortberg

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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Anand Thakur
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
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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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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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
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
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
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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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
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
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
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality

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