Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERGThe Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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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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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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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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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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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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The church is in the hope business.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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