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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

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Better Faith God Himself Trust Try
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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