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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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Theologian
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Illinois
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Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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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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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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to seeking first the kingdom.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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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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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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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