John Ortberg Quotes - Page 7

• When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

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  Life Changing, Done, Preaching

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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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• Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.

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  Hurt, People, Perfect

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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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• The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.

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  Character, Law, Office

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.58, Harper Collins

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• God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

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  Heart, People, Giving

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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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• We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.

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  Espresso, Followers, Sovereign

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.250, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

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  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.82, Harper Collins

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

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  Vision, Maintaining, Sin

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

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  Church, Resistance, Pessimism

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• Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

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  Mind, Firsts, Norm

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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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