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

John Ortberg

Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
JOHN ORTBERG

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

Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
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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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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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
The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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God Greatness Life Moments Replacement Yourself
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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