We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERGThe main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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The church is in the hope business.
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