Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Anand Thakur
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
JOHN ORTBERGThe main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
JOHN ORTBERGImagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
JOHN ORTBERGYou must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
JOHN ORTBERGYour Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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 ORTBERGWe must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
JOHN ORTBERGThe good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
JOHN ORTBERGThe most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
JOHN ORTBERGDeath is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
JOHN ORTBERGSkeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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 ORTBERGIf we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
JOHN ORTBERGLove and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
JOHN ORTBERGHurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
JOHN ORTBERGOver time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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