Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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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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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Never 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.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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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