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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

John Ortberg

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
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 of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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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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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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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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
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 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
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

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