John Ortberg Quotes - Page 2

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• Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'

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  Jesus, Pain, Choices

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.198, Zondervan

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• When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

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  People, Attention, Pay

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.45, Harper Collins

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• There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

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  Differences, Friendly, World

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

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  Humble, Humility, Christian Inspirational

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.173, Harper Collins

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• If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.

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  Different, Needs, Settling

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

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  Love Is, True Love Is, Willing

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• In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

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  Hurt, Pain, Distance

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.

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  Done, Might, Imagine

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

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  True Joy, People, Ordinary

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.73, Harper Collins

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• God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.

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  God, Jobs, Vacation

  John Ortberg (2010). “God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

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  Love, Neat And Tidy, Community

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan

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• There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means you become so immersed in his presence, so convinced of his goodness, so devoted to his lordship that you find even the cave is a perfectly safe place to be because he is there with you.

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  Mean, Caves, Safe

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• Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

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  Mean, Doubt, Doe

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.213, Harper Collins

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• Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

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  Christian, Self, Drawing

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

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  People, Normal, Illusion

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.

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  Peace, Powerful, Fear

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• Make your life about something bigger than your life.

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  Bigger

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• Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.

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  Christian, Goal, Worry

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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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  Doe, Way, Surrender

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.62, Harper Collins

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• Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.

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  Heart, Acceptance, Thinking

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.116, Harper Collins

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• Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

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  Spirituality, Genuine, Please

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• Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

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  Art, People, Disappointing

  John Ortberg (2012). “Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus”, p.101, Zondervan

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• Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

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  Waiting, Important

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• Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

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  Grace, Irrational, Offers

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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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  Love Is, Giving, Expectations

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.24, Harper Collins

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