Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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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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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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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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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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The church is in the hope business.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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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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