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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
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Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
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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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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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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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Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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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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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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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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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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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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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