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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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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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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 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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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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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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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
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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 frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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