Formation Quote by John Ortberg

“The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.”

John Ortberg

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“What do we do in the dark night? We do nothing. We wait. We remember that we are not God. We hold on. We ask for help. We do less. We resign from things, we rest more, we stop going to church, we ask somebody else to pray because we can’t. We let go of our need to hurry through…

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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

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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,…

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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.

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Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set…

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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

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From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or…

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“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”

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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

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“The most important thing about you,” Dallas would often say, “is not the things that you achieve; it is the person that you become.”

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