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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

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

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
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Active Confidence Expectation God Pain
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 ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
JOHN ORTBERG

Difference Friendship World
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
JOHN ORTBERG

Man Question Reality
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
JOHN ORTBERG

Identity Significance
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
JOHN ORTBERG

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

Freedom Surrender True

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