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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 Quotes)
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 (John Ortberg Quotes)
In the beginning, we’re told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted; and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner (John Ortberg Quotes)
The irony is that ‘looking down on everybody else’ is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness (John Ortberg Quotes)
From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God. (John Ortberg Quotes)
The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself. (John Ortberg Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around. (John Ortberg Quotes)
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend. (John Ortberg Quotes)
Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth. (John Ortberg Quotes)
Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him. (John Ortberg Quotes)
Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it’s what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body. (John Ortberg Quotes)
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller. (John Ortberg Quotes)
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones’ mind. (John Ortberg Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams. (John Ortberg Quotes)
We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don’t. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries. (John Ortberg Quotes)
Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. (John Ortberg Quotes)
I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. (John Ortberg Quotes)
I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift. (John Ortberg Quotes)
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down. (John Ortberg Quotes)
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God. (John Ortberg Quotes)
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me. (John Ortberg Quotes)
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat. (John Ortberg Quotes)
In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings. (John Ortberg Quotes)
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God. (John Ortberg Quotes)
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two. (John Ortberg Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We call an obsession with having someone’s approval ‘co-dependency;’ the Bible’s word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol. (John Ortberg Quotes)