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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.

John Ortberg

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
JOHN ORTBERG

Identity Significance
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
JOHN ORTBERG

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

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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERG

Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERG

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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
JOHN ORTBERG

Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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