We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERGThe possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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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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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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