When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERGThe harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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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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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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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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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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 Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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