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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.
-John Ortberg
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In Reality, Each Thought We Have Carries

John Ortberg
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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It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. i suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.
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What is sin? it is the glory of god not honored. the holiness of god not reverenced. the greatness of god not admired. the power of god not praised. the truth of god not sought. the wisdom of god not esteemed. the beauty of god not treasured. the goodness of god not savored. the faithfulness of god not trusted. the commandments of god not obeyed. the justice of god not respected. the wrath of god not feared. the grace of god not cherished. the presence of god not prized. the person of god not loved. that is sin.
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For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the bible has a simple story. god made man. man rejected god. god won't give up until he wins him back. god will whisper. he will shout. he will touch and tug. he will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. if there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. but he will leave the final one for us. the choice is ours. please understand. his goal is not to make you happy. his goal is to make you his. his goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.
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The western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. it is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.
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There is no good trying to be more spiritual than god. god never meant man to purely spiritual creature. that is why he uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. we may think this rather crude and unspiritual. god does not: he invented eating. he likes matter. he invented it.
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Every call to worship is a call into the real world.... i encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with such skilled and systematic distortion of the truth that i'm always in danger of losing my grip on reality. the reality, of course, is that god is sovereign and christ is savior. the reality is that prayer is my mother tongue and the eucharist my basic food. the reality is that baptism, not myers-briggs, defines who i am.
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