Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERGOver time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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Prudence 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.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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The church is in the hope business.
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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.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Every 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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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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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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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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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