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 ORTBERGGreatness is never achieved through indecision.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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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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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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 not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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