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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols my will may be enslaved to habits my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
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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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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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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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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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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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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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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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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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