Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
JOHN ORTBERGYou must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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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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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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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 harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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