We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERGOver time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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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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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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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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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.
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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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