Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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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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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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.
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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.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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