The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
JOHN ORTBERGEvery 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The church is in the hope business.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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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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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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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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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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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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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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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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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