God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERGHurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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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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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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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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