The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
JOHN ORTBERG
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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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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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Self-improvement 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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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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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