What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
JOHN ORTBERGThe greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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