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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.

John Ortberg

Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Heart Hurry Schedule
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
JOHN ORTBERG

Man Question Reality
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Anand Thakur
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Anand Thakur
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Achievement Decision Greatness
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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Anand Thakur
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERG

Humble Notice Oneself
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Illusion Normal People Temptation
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Anand Thakur
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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Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

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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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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