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.
JOHN ORTBERGSignificance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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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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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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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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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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