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" A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened. "
John Ortberg
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" The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking. "
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" There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator. "
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" The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training. "
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" There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly. "
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Integrity
" 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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" Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.' "
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" From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God. "
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Person
Soul
" I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul. "
John Ortberg
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" Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life. "
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Opposition
Reality
Life
" Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush. "
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You
Strategy
Gold
" Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. "
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Academic
Which
" I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity. "
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You
" It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us. "
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Us
Best
Worst
" People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible. "
John Ortberg
People
Bible
Cheer
" When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right. "
John Ortberg
I Can
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" Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war. "
John Ortberg
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God
Death
" People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller. "
John Ortberg
People
Calling
Sense
" Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body. "
John Ortberg
Soul
Body
Cancer
" Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin. "
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Build
Power
Sin
" Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends. "
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Life
New
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" I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive. "
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" Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth. "
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Authority
Real
Spiritual
" 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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" Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church. "
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Early
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Women
" Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death. "
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Pathway
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Own
" The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude. "
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People
" A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people. "
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Healthy
God
Other
" I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage. "
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Courage
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" Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France. "
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Giving
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Help
" Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings. "
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