John Ortberg on hurry
John Ortberg129 quotes“Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.”
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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John OrtbergJohn Ortberg One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The church is in the hope business.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg 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.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg 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.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg 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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Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
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More on hurry
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
Charles Caleb ColtonCharles Caleb Colton I have fun. I always have fun. I don’t really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that’s how I try to play baseball.
Adam DunnAdam Dunn If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
MartialMartial If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
MartialMartial Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HousmanA. E. Housman You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
Paul CezannePaul Cezanne