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.
JOHN ORTBERGGratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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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 greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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The church is in the hope business.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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