Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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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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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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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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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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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The church is in the hope business.
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