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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

John Ortberg

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
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
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
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
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit

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