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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

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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
To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Freedom Surrender True
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Humble Notice Oneself
The church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERG

Business Hope One Liner
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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bad Death God Myself Need Worth
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Deep Hard Strike Yourself
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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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
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
JOHN ORTBERG

Difference Friendship World

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.

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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.

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