It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
JOHN ORTBERGThe Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
JOHN ORTBERGJoylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
JOHN ORTBERGArt is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
JOHN ORTBERGWise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERGYour world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERGThere is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
JOHN ORTBERGI’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
JOHN ORTBERGA boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
JOHN ORTBERGThe Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERGThe most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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 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 ORTBERGIf you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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 ORTBERGJesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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