Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
JOHN ORTBERGI 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved 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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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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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