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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

John Ortberg

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Country Faith God Greatness History Record Worship
A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
JOHN ORTBERG

Employee Extrovert Himself Question
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERG

Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
JOHN ORTBERG

Deep Hard Strike Yourself
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Anand Thakur
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
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 ORTBERG

Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
JOHN ORTBERG

Deep Greatness Hurry Illusion Time
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

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