Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
JOHN ORTBERGReal question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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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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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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