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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

John Ortberg

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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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
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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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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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
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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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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 church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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