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

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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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.
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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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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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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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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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!
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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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Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.
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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.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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