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

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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.
John Ortberg
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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 goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
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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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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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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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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God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.
John Ortberg