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.
JOHN ORTBERGGreatness is never achieved through indecision.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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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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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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