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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Promise
Frequent
Bible

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To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.
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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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There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit
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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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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 good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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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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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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