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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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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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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
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God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.
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Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.
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