The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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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 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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