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• To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

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  Perseverance, Powerful, Disappointment

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• Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

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  Self, Boredom, Joy

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Espiritual, Jesús, Corazón

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.100, Harper Collins

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• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

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  Spiritual, People, Personality

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• La baja autoestima me hace creer que valgo tan poco que mi respuesta no importa. Con el arrepentimiento, sin embargo, entiendo que valgo tanto para Dios que mi respuesta es tan importante. El arrepentimiento es un trabajo correctivo para arreglar nuestras mentes y corazones, que se doblan por el pecado.

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  Self Esteem, Believe, Heart

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• God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

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  Spiritual, Spiritual Life, Not Interested

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• The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

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  Crazy, Idols, Soul

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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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  Risk, Skeptic, Expenses

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.146, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

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  Church, May, Sin

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

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  Messiah, Humans, Complexes

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.123, Zondervan

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• Dios nos ha confiado su tesoro más preciado: las personas. Nos pide que las pastoreemos y las formemos como discípulos fuertes, con fe valiente y buen carácter.

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  Fuerte, Carácter, Gente

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• Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

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  Procrastination, Safety, Way

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• I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

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  Spiritual, Hate, Thinking

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• Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.

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  Heart, Schedules

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.84, Harper Collins

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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.

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  Limits, Embrace, Enormous

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.84, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• La soledad es el único lugar donde podemos liberarnos de las fuerzas de la sociedad que, de otro modo, nos moldearían implacablemente. La soledad requiere una perseverancia implacable.

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  Perseverance, Solitude, Mold

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• The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

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  Dream, Soul, Hunger

  John Ortberg (2014). “Soul Keeping Study Guide: Caring for the Most Important Part of You”, p.106, Harper Collins

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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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  Only Love, Knows, Known

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• Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

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  Spiritual, Learning, Training

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• Normalmente, si el legado de alguien va a durar más que su vida, queda patente cuando muere. El día en que Alejandro Magno, o César Augusto, o Napoleón, o Socrates, o Muhammad murieron, sus reputaciones eran inmensas. Cuando Jesús murió, su pequeño y fracasado movimiento parecía haber llegado claramente a su fin.

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  Jesus, Legacy, Movement

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• A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.

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  Car, Wrecks, Slow Down

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• Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

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  Leader, Pessimism, Contagious

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• The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

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  Spiritual, Goal, Transformation

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Country, Race, Worship

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.

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  May, Unloved

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.14, Harper Collins

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