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John Ortberg Quotes | Quotes said by John Ortberg

  • John Ortberg Quote #1

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


  • John Ortberg Quote #2

    Amusement' is appealing because we don't have to think; it spares us the fear and anxiety that might otherwise prey on our thoughts.

  • John Ortberg Quote #3

    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.

  • John Ortberg Quote #4

    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.

  • John Ortberg Quote #5

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

  • John Ortberg Quote #6

    Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.

  • John Ortberg Quote #7

    Christianity is like a nail, he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

  • John Ortberg Quote #8

    Christianity is like a nail. The harder you strike, the deeper it goes. – Chairman of Stalin's League the Militant Godless

  • John Ortberg Quote #9

    Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.

  • John Ortberg Quote #10

    Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

  • John Ortberg Quote #11

    For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

  • John Ortberg Quote #12

    God has entrusted us with his most precious treasure - people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.

  • John Ortberg Quote #13

    God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

  • John Ortberg Quote #14

    Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

  • John Ortberg Quote #15

    I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.

  • John Ortberg Quote #16

    If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.

  • John Ortberg Quote #17

    If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.
    Love grows when people serve.

  • John Ortberg Quote #18

    If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

  • John Ortberg Quote #19

    Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.

  • John Ortberg Quote #20

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

  • John Ortberg Quote #21

    Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

  • John Ortberg Quote #22

    No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith. Elie Wiesel

  • John Ortberg Quote #23

    Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

  • John Ortberg Quote #24

    Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

  • John Ortberg Quote #25

    Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make their conclusions about life before the questions have even been asked. This means that beyond just seeing what is wrong with the world, cynics lack the courage to do something about it. The dynamic beneath cynicism is a fear of accepting responsibility.

  • John Ortberg Quote #26

    Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

  • John Ortberg Quote #27

    Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

  • John Ortberg Quote #28

    Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

  • John Ortberg Quote #29

    Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

  • John Ortberg Quote #30

    So it goes for those of us who live in a cul-de-sac, where babies are brought home from the hospital and watched over, where hearts stop and feet slip, where we wonder if there is a hidden road that leads somewhere.
    We believe and we doubt. Believing and doubting share the same inevitability, but they are not equal. They cannot lay the same claim on our allegiance. They do not share the same power.
    If there are places beyond the cul-de-sac, doubt cannot take us there.

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