Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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 only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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