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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

John Ortberg

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
JOHN ORTBERG

Appliance God Yourself
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
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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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
JOHN ORTBERG

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

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

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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
JOHN ORTBERG

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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
JOHN ORTBERG

Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
JOHN ORTBERG

Discipline People Reason Right
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
JOHN ORTBERG

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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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