When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
JOHN ORTBERGLeadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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