You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
JOHN ORTBERGThe miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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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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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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