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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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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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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
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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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