You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
JOHN ORTBERGGreatness is never achieved through indecision.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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