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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

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
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
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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
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
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
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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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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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
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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