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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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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.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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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.
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Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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