John Ortberg Quotes

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• Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.
• I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.
• The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.
• Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.
• Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.
• Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.
• Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick,…
• For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed…
• No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a…
• We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis.
• Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.
• Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.
• Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It…
• I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the…
• I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.
• Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
• So it goes for those of us who live in a cul-de-sac, where babies are brought home from the hospital and watched over, where hearts…
• Even in the world today, it is often at the point where we are frustrated by the gap between fallen reality and our sense of…
• God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room,…
• In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

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