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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.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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Trust
Faith
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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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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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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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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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as the self stuffed with the self.
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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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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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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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