Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
JOHN ORTBERGWillpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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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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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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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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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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.
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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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