The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERGThe possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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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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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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