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Human Quotes by John Ortberg
- Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself…
- One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human…
- The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about…
- There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to…
- The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on…
- Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face…
- In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups.…
- This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations.…
- Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein