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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.
John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.
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