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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Psychologist
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Rockford
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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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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve.
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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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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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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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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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In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.
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