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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
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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Sought
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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.
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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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 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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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as the self stuffed with the self.
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