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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
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Scriptures
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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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We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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 you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve.
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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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Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters call me to be my best self appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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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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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In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.
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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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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.
John Ortberg