The church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERGGreatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with 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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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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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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