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.
JOHN ORTBERGAs long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Ever 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.
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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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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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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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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.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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If 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.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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We 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.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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