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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

If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
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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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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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
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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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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