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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.

John Ortberg

Different, Needs, Settling

John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.34, Harper Collins

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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

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Love Is, True Love Is, Willing

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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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Children, Pain, Train Of Thought

John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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Differences, Friendly, World

John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.56, Harper Collins

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I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.

John Ortberg

Gratitude, Self, Independence

John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.281, ReadHowYouWant.com

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We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

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Humble, Humility, Christian Inspirational

John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.173, Harper Collins

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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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People, Attention, Pay

John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.45, Harper Collins

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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

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Done, Might, Imagine

John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

John Ortberg

God, Jobs, Vacation

John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

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True Joy, People, Ordinary

John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.73, Harper Collins

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If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

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Love, Neat And Tidy, Community

John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan

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There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.

John Ortberg

Mean, Caves, Safe

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Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

John Ortberg

Christian, Self, Drawing

John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.38, Harper Collins

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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

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Mean, Doubt, Doe

John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.213, Harper Collins

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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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People, Normal, Illusion

John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.10, Harper Collins

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Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

John Ortberg

Peace, Powerful, Fear

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Make your life about something bigger than your life.

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Bigger

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Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.

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Christian, Goal, Worry

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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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Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.116, Harper Collins

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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

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Doe, Way, Surrender

John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.62, Harper Collins

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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

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Art, People, Disappointing

John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.101, Zondervan

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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

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Spirituality, Genuine, Please

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Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

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Waiting, Important

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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

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Love Is, Giving, Expectations

John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.24, Harper Collins

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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

John Ortberg

Prayer, Long, Desire

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