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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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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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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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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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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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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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