When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERGYou can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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