“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 things. It is a way we think about outcomes. Before Jonas Salk developed a… — 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
“And it struck me, in that year, how deeply both faith and doubt are part of my life. We often think of them as… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the “death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God.”1” — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“Jesus has made God’s presence scandalously available to anyone who wants it.” — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
