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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

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Expectation God Trust
The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Essence Hope Possible Transformation
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Anand Thakur
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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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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