John Ortberg Quotes

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• You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
• I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough,…
• Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story…
• A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
• Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
• Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
• When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
• The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made,…
• Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out…
• I need to learn. Joy is at the heart of God's plan for human beings. The reason for this is worth pondering awhile: Joy is…
• Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
• In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their…
• The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
• We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus…
• 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…
• True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
• Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
• The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and…
• Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
• One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

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