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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

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Big Life Yourself
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
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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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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