It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
JOHN ORTBERGFor the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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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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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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