The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
JOHN ORTBERGPeace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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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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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with 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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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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.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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