For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERGPrayer allows us to wait without worry.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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