The church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERGIt 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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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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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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