For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
JOHN ORTBERGPassion 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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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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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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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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