You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
JOHN ORTBERGA bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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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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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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