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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Anand Thakur
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
JOHN ORTBERGIf you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
JOHN ORTBERGWhen preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
JOHN ORTBERGFor 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 primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
JOHN ORTBERGSkeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
JOHN ORTBERGThe test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
JOHN ORTBERGTrue love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
JOHN ORTBERGPrudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
JOHN ORTBERGLeadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
JOHN ORTBERGAt the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
JOHN ORTBERGWe are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERGChurches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERGWe must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
JOHN ORTBERGEver console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
JOHN ORTBERGEvery day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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