Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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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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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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