Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
JOHN ORTBERGWe are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The church is in the hope business.
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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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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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