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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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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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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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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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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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