Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
JOHN ORTBERGGod is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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The church is in the hope business.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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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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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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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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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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.
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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