The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
JOHN ORTBERGWe’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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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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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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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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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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