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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Devotional
Devotion
Measure
Main
Simply
Life

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