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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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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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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.
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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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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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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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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
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