Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERGWe may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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A 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.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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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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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with 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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