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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.

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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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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
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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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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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