Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
JOHN ORTBERGGod 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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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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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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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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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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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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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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The church is in the hope business.
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