Community Quote by John Ortberg Download Open image “God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.” — John Ortberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Decided God Good His Outside Own People Reasons Transformed
God chooses community sometimes to bear an unfair burden to force us to rise to the next level of consciousness and understanding. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“The call of community isn't about finding people just like us, or at the exclusion of any people. Community in the biblical sense is… — Hugh Halter & Matt Smay Copy Share Image
I am convinced that real community flows out of right relationship with God and not that right relationship with God flows out of right… — Wayne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had. — Luke Pritchard Copy Share Image
“Most people in America, when they are exposed to the Christian faith, are not being transformed. They take one step into the door, and… — David Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“God’s kingdom happens when human beings are empowered by God’s Spirit to do God’s kingdom work in the shape of a new community.” — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“What do we do in the dark night? We do nothing. We wait. We remember that we are not God. We hold on. We… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“The most important thing about you,” Dallas would often say, “is not the things that you achieve; it is the person that you become.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image