If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERGIf you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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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 I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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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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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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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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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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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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