The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus gave the world its most influential movement.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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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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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.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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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.
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