Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
JOHN ORTBERGThe church is in the hope business.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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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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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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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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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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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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