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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

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
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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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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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking

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