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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

John Ortberg

The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
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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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
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
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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
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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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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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

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