We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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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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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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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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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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