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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

John Ortberg

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
JOHN ORTBERG

Body Known Love
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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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Acceptance Act Affirmation Alive Heart
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
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Anand Thakur
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Anand Thakur
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Anand Thakur
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.
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Anand Thakur
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God Need Soul
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
JOHN ORTBERG

God Healing Holy Planning Refreshment Spirit
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
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

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