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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

John Ortberg

One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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
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
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

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