The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
JOHN ORTBERGWe’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The church is in the hope business.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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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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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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 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.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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