Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERGWe’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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