Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
JOHN ORTBERGHurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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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 the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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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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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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