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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

John Ortberg

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
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
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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Anand Thakur
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
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
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Anand Thakur
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Anand Thakur
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

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