Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
JOHN ORTBERGWhen preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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The church is in the hope business.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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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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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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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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