You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The church is in the hope business.
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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