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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
World
Influential
Gave
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Jesus

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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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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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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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If ever there were a true just as I am church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.
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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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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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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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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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