You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
JOHN ORTBERGA boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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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.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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