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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 Ortberg

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
JOHN ORTBERG

Achievement Decision Greatness
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
JOHN ORTBERG

Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

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.

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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.

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