Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
JOHN ORTBERGTo 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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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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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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