Top 23 John Ortberg Jr. Quotes
#1. We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.
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#2. The Bible's teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.
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#3. What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? Me Father is very fond of me!
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#4. As frustrating as people can be, it's hard to find a good substitute.
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#5. Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.
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#6. The one thing needed is the decision to live so continually in Jesus' presence as to be always covered with the dust of the rabbi. Martha got
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#7. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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#8. Biblical prayer is impertinent, persistent, shameless, indecorous. It is more like haggling in an oriental bazaar than the polite monologues of the churches.
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#9. Somebody once said that the biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn't think he's you. In pain, we get very clear about not being God.
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#10. 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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#11. We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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#12. 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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#13. The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
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#14. Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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#15. Joy is God's basic character. Joy is his eternal destiny. God is the happiest being in the universe.
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#16. When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.
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#17. 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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#18. Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
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#19. Prayer, perhaps more than any other activity, is the concrete expression of the fact that we are invited into a relationship with God.
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#20. There is a very important theological distinction between being a prophet and being a jerk. What burns deeply in the heart of a true prophet is not just anger but love.
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#21. God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. "God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away," said Meister Eckhart.
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#22. Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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