There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
JOHN ORTBERGGod 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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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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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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.
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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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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 are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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The church is in the hope business.
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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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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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