You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
JOHN ORTBERGGenuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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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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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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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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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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