The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
JOHN ORTBERGImagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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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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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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