For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
JOHN ORTBERGThe Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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