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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.

John Ortberg

We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
JOHN ORTBERG

Heart Hurry Schedule
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
JOHN ORTBERG

Discipline People Reason Right
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
JOHN ORTBERG

Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

God Need Soul
Ever 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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
JOHN ORTBERG

Love Necessary True Willing
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

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