Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
JOHN ORTBERGWe’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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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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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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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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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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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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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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