A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.
JOHN ORTBERGWhen preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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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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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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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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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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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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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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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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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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