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1. "Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting." ~ John Ortberg
2. "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
3. "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." ~ John Ortberg
4. "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
5. "Christianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes." ~ John Ortberg
6. "We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved." ~ John Ortberg
7. "We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race." ~ John Ortberg
8. "Vertrauen ist besser als Gewissheit, weil es die Freiheit des anderen ehrt und in der Beziehung eine wachsende Vertrautheit ermöglicht, wie Gewissheit allein sie niemals hervorbringen könnte." ~ John Ortberg
9. "Being right is actually a very hard burden to be able to carry gracefully and humbly. That's why nobody likes to sit next to the kid in class who's right all the time. One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it." ~ John Ortberg
10. "If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended — we could not make enough room inside the building." ~ John Ortberg
11. "In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love." ~ John Ortberg
12. "I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior." ~ John Ortberg
13. "You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody." ~ John Ortberg
14. "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
15. "Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness." ~ John Ortberg
16. "Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end." ~ John Ortberg
17. "The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear." ~ John Ortberg
18. "A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened." ~ John Ortberg
19. "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." ~ John Ortberg
20. "Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism." ~ John Ortberg
21. "Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings." ~ John Ortberg
22. "The church is in the hope business." ~ John Ortberg
23. "When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human." ~ John Ortberg
24. "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
25. "If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices." ~ John Ortberg
26. "Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation." ~ John Ortberg
27. "I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence." ~ John Ortberg
28. "There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God." ~ John Ortberg
29. "The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return." ~ John Ortberg
30. "If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them." ~ John Ortberg
31. "True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary." ~ John Ortberg
32. "Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have." ~ John Ortberg
33. "God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become." ~ John Ortberg
34. "Being rich towards God means ...growing a soul that is increasingly healthy and good. ... loving and enjoying the people around you. ...learning about your gifts and passion and doing good work to improve the world. ...becoming generous with your stuff. ...making that which is temporary become the servant of that which is eternal. ...savoring every roll of the dice and every trip around the board." ~ John Ortberg
35. "Love me, love my rag dolls," God says. It's a package deal." ~ John Ortberg
36. "It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for." ~ John Ortberg
37. "Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts." ~ John Ortberg
38. "True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace." ~ John Ortberg
39. "The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith." ~ John Ortberg
40. "Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds." ~ John Ortberg
41. "When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us." ~ John Ortberg
42. "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

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Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus' way? WHy else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks?"
Author: Ann Voskamp

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