The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
JOHN ORTBERGIf I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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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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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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