Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERGSignificance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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To 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.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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