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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

We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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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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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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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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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
God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
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 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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