John Ortberg on anand thakur
John Ortberg129 quotes“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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg 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.
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