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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

John Ortberg

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
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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
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
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.

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