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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.

John Ortberg

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
JOHN ORTBERG

Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
JOHN ORTBERG

Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
JOHN ORTBERG

Body Known Love
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
JOHN ORTBERG

Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Devotion Life Main Measurement Simplicity
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
JOHN ORTBERG

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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
JOHN ORTBERG

Door God Goodness Open Opportunity
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERG

Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
JOHN ORTBERG

Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly

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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