“When asked to identify what the law is about, Jesus’ response was simply “Love God, love people.” He named a fundamentally different way of identifying who are the children of God: “Do they love God, and do they love the… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who doubts sometimes, has written that the reason so many babies keep being born is that God loves stories. Why” — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“I can buy baseball cards to view an entire career on the back of a little square of cardboard. But nobody sells major league… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“A pastor struggled for years with sexual addiction, eventually becoming so despondent that hospitalized himself. He joined an inpatient group and was mostly silent… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“When asked to identify what the law is about, Jesus’ response was simply “Love God, love people.” He named a fundamentally different way of… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when three conditions… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“It was around Clifford's era that Thomas Huxley coined the term agnostic, which did not exist before the nineteenth century. Agnostics, Huxley said, “totally… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!” — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who doubts sometimes, has written that the reason so many babies keep being born is that God loves stories.… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not something we give to God because he wants to make sure we know how much trouble he went to over us.… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Theologian Lesslie Newbigin writes that we live in an age that favors doubt over faith.4 We often speak of “blind faith” and “honest doubt.” — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.” — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
