At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
JOHN ORTBERGThe 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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