To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
JOHN ORTBERGFailure 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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The church is in the hope business.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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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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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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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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