You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Anand Thakur
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
JOHN ORTBERGThe church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERGWe are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERGHaving faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
JOHN ORTBERGThe goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
JOHN ORTBERGThe main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
JOHN ORTBERGOne of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
JOHN ORTBERGIf you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERGA bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
JOHN ORTBERGI am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
JOHN ORTBERGHabits eat good intentions for breakfast.
JOHN ORTBERGChurches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
JOHN ORTBERGGod 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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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