Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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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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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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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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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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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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