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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

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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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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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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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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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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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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters call me to be my best self appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success
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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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In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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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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