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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

John Ortberg

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
JOHN ORTBERG

Spirituality Training Transformation Wisdom
$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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 ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERG

Follow Identity
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure Mission Need
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?

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