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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

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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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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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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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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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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.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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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.

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