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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
Leader
Hope
Infectious
Contagious
Pessimism
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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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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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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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.
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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.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
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The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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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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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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You have a turn every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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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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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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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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