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One Quotes by John Ortberg
- 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…
- Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
- Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of…
- God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is…
- "Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they…
- One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
- If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and…
- One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'
- The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
- Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still…
- To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can…
- 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…
- 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.…
- We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
- Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
- Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a…
- Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be…
- My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.
- 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…
- Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle