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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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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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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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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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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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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
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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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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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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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