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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

John Ortberg

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
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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
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
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
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 ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly

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