Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
JOHN ORTBERGThe 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 ORTBERGDisciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
JOHN ORTBERGGoing in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
JOHN ORTBERGAt the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
JOHN ORTBERGWe’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERGJesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
JOHN ORTBERGWillpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
JOHN ORTBERGMake your life about something bigger than your life.
JOHN ORTBERGWhen we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERGChurches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERGAs long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
JOHN ORTBERGNobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
JOHN ORTBERGThe goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
JOHN ORTBERGWaiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERGImagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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