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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
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Contagious
Pessimism
Deeply
Leader
Hope
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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.
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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.
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as the self stuffed with the self.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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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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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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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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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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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.
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I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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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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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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