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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

John Ortberg

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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 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
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

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