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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.

John Ortberg

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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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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
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
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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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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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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