We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERGJesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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