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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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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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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of 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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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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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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