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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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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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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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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 church is in the hope business.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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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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