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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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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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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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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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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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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Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as the self stuffed with the self.
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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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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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