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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

John Ortberg

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
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
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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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often

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