We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERGGod wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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The church is in the hope business.
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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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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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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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