You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
JOHN ORTBERGThe only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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