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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

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Anand Thakur
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
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
JOHN ORTBERG

Goal Live Separate Time
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
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 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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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
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 test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Anand Thakur
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
JOHN ORTBERG

Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Improvement Planning Salvation

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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