Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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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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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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