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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Rockford
Illinois
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols my will may be enslaved to habits my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
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