Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERGThe main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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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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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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