If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
JOHN ORTBERGThe test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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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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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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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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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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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