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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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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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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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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.
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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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