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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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 character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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