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

John Ortberg

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
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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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
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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