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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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Psychologist
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Rockford
Illinois
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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