The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
JOHN ORTBERGThe most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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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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Failure 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.
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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.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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