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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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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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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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The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols my will may be enslaved to habits my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.
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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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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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