When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
JOHN ORTBERGSloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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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 church is in the hope business.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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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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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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