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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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Jesus
World
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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.
John Ortberg
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
John Ortberg
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
John Ortberg
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
John Ortberg
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
John Ortberg
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
John Ortberg
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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.
John Ortberg
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
John Ortberg
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
John Ortberg
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
John Ortberg
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
John Ortberg
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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
John Ortberg
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
John Ortberg
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
John Ortberg
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The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols my will may be enslaved to habits my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
John Ortberg
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
John Ortberg
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
John Ortberg
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
John Ortberg
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
John Ortberg
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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.
John Ortberg