Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
JOHN ORTBERGTrue love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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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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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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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