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

John Ortberg

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
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
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
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Cure God Sin Vision
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
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Anand Thakur
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
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

Better Faith God Himself Trust Try

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