Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
JOHN ORTBERGLove and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
JOHN ORTBERGThe ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
JOHN ORTBERGOne of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
JOHN ORTBERGThe goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
JOHN ORTBERGSkepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus gave the world its most influential movement.
JOHN ORTBERGGod is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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 ORTBERGThe possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
JOHN ORTBERGYou 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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERGWaiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERGI hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
JOHN ORTBERGDisciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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