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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

John Ortberg

A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
JOHN ORTBERG

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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Body Known Love
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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God Himself Known Mysterious
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERG

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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERG

Follow Identity
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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
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

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