True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERGThe greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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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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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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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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 is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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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.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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