Make your life about something bigger than your life.
JOHN ORTBERGThe 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!
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The church is in the hope business.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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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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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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