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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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 ORTBERGFailure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
JOHN ORTBERGIf you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERGBiblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
JOHN ORTBERGSkeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
JOHN ORTBERGHabits eat good intentions for breakfast.
JOHN ORTBERGSloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
JOHN ORTBERGTrue repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERGChurches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERGSolitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
JOHN ORTBERGsometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
JOHN ORTBERGGod has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
JOHN ORTBERGThere is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
JOHN ORTBERGWe may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
JOHN ORTBERGThe most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
JOHN ORTBERGGratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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