The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERGGod is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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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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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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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.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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