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 ORTBERGOne reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
More John Ortberg Quotes
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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