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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Disordered
Schedule
Hurry
Schedules
Heart

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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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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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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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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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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 goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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