Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
JOHN ORTBERGWaiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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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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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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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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