The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
JOHN ORTBERGI’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The church is in the hope business.
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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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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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