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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 good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
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
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
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
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Man Question Reality
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
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
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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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
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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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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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