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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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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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 main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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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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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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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit
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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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