Differences Quote by John Ortberg

“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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“What do we do in the dark night? We do nothing. We wait. We remember that we are not God. We hold on. We…

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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the…

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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…

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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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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely…

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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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