Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Anand Thakur
Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
JOHN ORTBERGWhen preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
JOHN ORTBERGThe ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERGTo become truly free, you must surrender.
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 ORTBERGMake your life about something bigger than your life.
JOHN ORTBERGOne of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
JOHN ORTBERGThe church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERGGrace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
JOHN ORTBERGIt may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
JOHN ORTBERGWhat 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.
JOHN ORTBERGWise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERGWe are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERGGratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
JOHN ORTBERGEver console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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