Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERGI hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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 do this perfectly for you is God.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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