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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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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 possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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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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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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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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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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.
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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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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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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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