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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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Plans
Self
Salvation

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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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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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