When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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