God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERGBoth hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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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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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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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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.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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