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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.

John Ortberg

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
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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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
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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
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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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