Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERGThe harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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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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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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