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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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Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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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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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'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.
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The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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