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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

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
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
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
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
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
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
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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