Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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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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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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