Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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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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