Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERGHabits eat good intentions for breakfast.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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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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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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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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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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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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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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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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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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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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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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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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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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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