Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERGThe reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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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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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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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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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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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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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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The church is in the hope business.
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