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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

John Ortberg

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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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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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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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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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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

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