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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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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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