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.
JOHN ORTBERGLeadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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