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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

John Ortberg

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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Scripture
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Scriptures

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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
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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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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 most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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