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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

John Ortberg

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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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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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
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
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking

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