John Ortberg Quotes

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• 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 become.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Mind

  John Ortberg (2001). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat”, p.162, Harper Collins

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• One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

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  Illusion, Great Marriage, More Time

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• Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances.
  Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

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  Lying, Giving, Doe

  Twitter post from Mar 23, 2015

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• Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

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  Christian, Jesus, Peace

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.116, Harper Collins

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• The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

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  Important, Tasks, Life Is

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.273, Harper Collins

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• If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

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  Godly, People, Attention

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

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  Prayer, Today, Problem

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.135, Harper Collins

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• The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

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  Promise

  John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

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  Faithful, Trying, Knowing God

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  People, Take Time, Love Always

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• Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success

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  Self, Challenges, Inspire

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• Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

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  Wise, People, Way

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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• Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Facts

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• I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.

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  Gratitude, Self, Independence

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.281, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

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  Rags, Dolls, Treasure

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• Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

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  Doe, Shapes, Way

  John Ortberg (2001). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
  Love grows when people serve.

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  Success, Mother, People

  John Ortberg (2010). “The Me I Want to Be, Teen Edition: Becoming God's Best Version of You”, p.139, Harper Collins

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• Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

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  Breakfast, Good Intentions, Habit

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2012

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• 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 and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

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  Faith, Settling, Danger

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

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  Waiting, Sometimes, Painful

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.257, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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 them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

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  Price Tag, People, Brushes

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.57, Harper Collins

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• If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

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  Teamwork, Water, Want

  John Ortberg (2013). “The Life You've Always Wanted Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.122, Harper Collins

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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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  Brother, Son, World

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.103, Harper Collins

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• What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

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  What Matters, Accomplishment, Achieve

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• God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

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  Children, Pain, Train Of Thought

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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