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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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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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If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve.
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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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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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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.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.
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