For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
JOHN ORTBERGNever try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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God 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.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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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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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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