The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERGAs long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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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.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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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.
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A 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.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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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.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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