If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
JOHN ORTBERGA boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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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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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
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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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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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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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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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