Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
JOHN ORTBERGEver 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.
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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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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 possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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