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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

John Ortberg

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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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
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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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
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
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

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