I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
JOHN ORTBERGMake your life about something bigger than your life.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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