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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.

John Ortberg

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
JOHN ORTBERG

Expectation God Trust
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
JOHN ORTBERG

Beginning God Learning Love People Serious World
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
JOHN ORTBERG

Compassionate Love Self Love Ugly
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
JOHN ORTBERG

Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
JOHN ORTBERG

Discipline People Reason Right
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
JOHN ORTBERG

Influence Movement World
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
JOHN ORTBERG

Deep Hard Strike Yourself
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
JOHN ORTBERG

Allow Character Doubt Faith Freedom Obedience Transformation

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