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.
JOHN ORTBERGChurches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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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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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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