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

John Ortberg

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
JOHN ORTBERG

Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
JOHN ORTBERG

Identity Significance
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Follow Identity
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Discipline People Reason Right
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

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