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

John Ortberg

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Difference Friendship World
Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Mission Ourselves Position Situation Start Temptation Thinking
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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.
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Employee Extrovert Himself Question
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Argument God Often
A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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