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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.

John Ortberg

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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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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 hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Anand Thakur
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
JOHN ORTBERG

Employee Extrovert Himself Question

Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.

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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.

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