The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Anand Thakur
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
JOHN ORTBERGOne of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
JOHN ORTBERGIt’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
JOHN ORTBERGIn 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 ORTBERGImagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
JOHN ORTBERGThe greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
JOHN ORTBERGThe ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERGYou 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 ORTBERGFailure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
JOHN ORTBERGGenuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
JOHN ORTBERGWho you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERGGod 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.
JOHN ORTBERGHurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
JOHN ORTBERGSpiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
JOHN ORTBERGThe most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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