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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.

John Ortberg

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
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
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
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
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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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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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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