John Ortberg Quotes

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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 become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting…
• Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
• 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…
• Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
• What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you…
• Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself…
• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human…
• The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
• Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
• Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
• Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
• For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
• We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
• 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…
• The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind…
• 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…
• It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I…
• Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about…
• The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

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