Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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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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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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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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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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