Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
JOHN ORTBERGSloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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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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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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