John Ortberg Quotes - Page 7

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• The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

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  Strikes, Harder, Deeper

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.82, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Done, Nagging, Should

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.16, Zondervan

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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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  Our Actions, Belief, Guides

  John Ortberg (2010). “Know Doubt: The Importance of Embracing Uncertainty in Your Faith (Large Print 16pt)”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

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  Grateful, Sometimes, Realizing

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.151, Zondervan

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• There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God’s counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.

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  Mean, Devil, Dozen

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• Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

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  Jesus, Movement, World

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• Art 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.

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  Art, Jesus, Hate

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• Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Watches

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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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  Humble, Thinking, Self

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• We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

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  Book, People, Tools

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• The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

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  Vision, Maintaining, Sin

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• Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

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  Who We Are, Significance

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• Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

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  Church, Resistance, Pessimism

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• "Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them."

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  Church, Veins, Want

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