Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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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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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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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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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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