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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More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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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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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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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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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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