The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
JOHN ORTBERGWho you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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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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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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