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

John Ortberg

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
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
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
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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
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
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

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