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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
Heart
Disordered
Schedule
Hurry
Schedules

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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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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 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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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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