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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.

John Ortberg

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERG

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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Love Necessary True Willing
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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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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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Improvement Planning Salvation

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