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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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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 who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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You have a turn every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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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.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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.
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