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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

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
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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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
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
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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