We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERG- Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERGSkepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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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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.
JOHN ORTBERGEvery 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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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
JOHN ORTBERGFailure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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.
JOHN ORTBERGLove and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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.
JOHN ORTBERGThere 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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERGWe are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
JOHN ORTBERGHurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
JOHN ORTBERGThe test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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