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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.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Psychologist
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Rockford
Illinois
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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit
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The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
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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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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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.
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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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to seeking first the kingdom.
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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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