Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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Anand Thakur
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
JOHN ORTBERGThe church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERGTo love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
JOHN ORTBERGThe only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
JOHN ORTBERGWise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
JOHN ORTBERGGod is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERGFailure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
JOHN ORTBERGArt 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 problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
JOHN ORTBERGWhat matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
JOHN ORTBERGPassion 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.
JOHN ORTBERGTrue love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
JOHN ORTBERGReal question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
JOHN ORTBERGFor many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
JOHN ORTBERGIt’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
JOHN ORTBERGThe 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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