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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
Significance

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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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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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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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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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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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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.
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