Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERGReal question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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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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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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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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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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