Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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