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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

John Ortberg

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself

We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

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