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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
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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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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 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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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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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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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If ever there were a true just as I am church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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