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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

John Ortberg

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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
JOHN ORTBERG

Love Necessary True Willing
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Failure Mission Need
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
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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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Big Life Yourself
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation

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