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.
JOHN ORTBERGSloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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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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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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