You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
JOHN ORTBERGWe’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
More John Ortberg Quotes
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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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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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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