Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERGDisciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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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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