The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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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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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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For 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.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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