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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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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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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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 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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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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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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