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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

John Ortberg

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
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
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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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
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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

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