John Ortberg on anand thakur
John Ortberg129 quotes“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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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The church is in the hope business.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.
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Adelia PradoAdelia Prado One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
Adelaide Anne ProcterAdelaide Anne Procter At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State.
Adi DaAdi Da Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
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MenanderMenander With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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