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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

John Ortberg

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
JOHN ORTBERG

Difference Friendship World
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
JOHN ORTBERG

Appliance God Yourself
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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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Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Identity Significance
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Influence Movement World
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERG

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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.
JOHN ORTBERG

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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
JOHN ORTBERG

Act Break Genuine God Pretend Spirituality

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