Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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More John Ortberg Quotes
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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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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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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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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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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The church is in the hope business.
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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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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