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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

John Ortberg

Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
To become truly free, you must surrender.
JOHN ORTBERG

Freedom Surrender True
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
JOHN ORTBERG

Heart Hurry Schedule
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You 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 ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
JOHN ORTBERG

Discipline People Reason Right
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
JOHN ORTBERG

Love Necessary True Willing
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
JOHN ORTBERG

Appliance God Yourself
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Big Life Yourself

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