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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

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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Goal Live Separate Time
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 a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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