We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERGOver and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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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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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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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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