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 has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
JOHN ORTBERGHurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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 them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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