True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
JOHN ORTBERGWe 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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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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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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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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