The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
JOHN ORTBERGFor 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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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 Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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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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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let 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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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