The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
JOHN ORTBERGGreatness is never achieved through indecision.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person 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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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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