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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.

John Ortberg

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
JOHN ORTBERG

Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERG

Follow Identity
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
JOHN ORTBERG

Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
JOHN ORTBERG

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