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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

John Ortberg

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERG

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

Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
JOHN ORTBERG

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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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

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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
JOHN ORTBERG

Goal Live Separate Time
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The church is in the hope business.
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Business Hope One Liner
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God Improvement Planning Salvation
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
JOHN ORTBERG

Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Cure God Sin Vision
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
JOHN ORTBERG

Appliance God Yourself
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

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