John Ortberg Quotes

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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…
• Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
• sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
• 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.…
• True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
• The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
• If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
• When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
• Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
• We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
• From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into…
• A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself,…
• The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.
• There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and…
• In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.
• I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.
• Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.
• The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.
• When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
• Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket…

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