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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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