If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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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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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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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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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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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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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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