Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERGNever 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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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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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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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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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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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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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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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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