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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

John Ortberg

Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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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
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
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
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
The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.

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