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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

John Ortberg

The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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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
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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
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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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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