The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus gave the world its most influential movement.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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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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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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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