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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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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 most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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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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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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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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