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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

John Ortberg

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
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
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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
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
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
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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JOHN ORTBERG

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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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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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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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
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
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
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
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

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

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