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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
Devotion
Measure
Main
Simply
Life
Devotional

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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.
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If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve.
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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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You have a turn every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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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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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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