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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Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
JOHN ORTBERGYour world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERGOne of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
JOHN ORTBERGChurches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERGA bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
JOHN ORTBERGToday, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
JOHN ORTBERGThe church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERGArt 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.
JOHN ORTBERGGod has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
JOHN ORTBERGWe are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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 ORTBERGI 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.
JOHN ORTBERGSloth 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 ORTBERGThe reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
JOHN ORTBERGGod wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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