Quotes by John Ortberg

John Ortberg

“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.”

Church

Veins

Want

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A bad sermon is like a car wreck – everyone slows down to see what happened.

Car

Slow Down

Wrecks

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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.

Boss

Extroverts

Often Is

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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.

Acceptance

Heart

Thinking

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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.

Art

Hate

Jesus

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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

Desire

Long

Prayer

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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

Heart

Jesus

Spiritual

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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.

Christian

Heart

Jesus

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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

Becoming

Waiting

Want

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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

Contagious

Leader

Pessimism

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