Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
JOHN ORTBERGIf you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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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’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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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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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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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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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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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