There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
JOHN ORTBERGThe only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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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 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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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