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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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Rockford
Illinois
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.
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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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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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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from 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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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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