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• There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

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  Differences, Friendly, World

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• 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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  Faith, Settling, Danger

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.134, Harper Collins

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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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  Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.116, Harper Collins

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• Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

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  Breakfast, Good Intentions, Habit

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2012

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• Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

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  Art, People, Disappointing

  John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.101, Zondervan

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• In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

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  Hurt, Pain, Distance

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Dying, May

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.23, Harper Collins

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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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  Pain, Reality, Comfort

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• Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'

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  Jesus, Pain, Choices

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.198, Zondervan

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• God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

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  Opportunity, Doors, Endless Opportunities

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2012

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• You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

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  Joy, Everyday, Contentment

  John Ortberg (2014). “Soul Keeping Study Guide: Caring for the Most Important Part of You”, p.54, Harper Collins

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

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  Doe, Mass, Masterpiece

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

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  True Joy, People, Ordinary

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.73, Harper Collins

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• If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.

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  Different, Needs, Settling

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.

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  Mean, Caves, Safe

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• For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

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  Soul, Needs, Wells

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• We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Race

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• Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.

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  Christian, Jesus, Arguing

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• There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

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  Jesus, Mean, Differences

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• In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Littles

  John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

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  Trying, Want, Willpower

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.52, Harper Collins

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

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  Goal, Scripture

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.184, Harper Collins

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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.

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  People, World, Serious

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

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  Peace, Powerful, Fear

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