We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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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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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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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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