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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.

John Ortberg

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
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
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Appliance God Yourself
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
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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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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
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
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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.

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