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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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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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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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