John Ortberg on anand thakur
John Ortberg129 quotes“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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The church is in the hope business.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
John OrtbergJohn Ortberg Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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Adam ThomsonAdam Thomson It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
PlautusPlautus How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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