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" 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. "

John Ortberg

Losing

Yourself

You

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Fast

Life

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" 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. "

" Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. "

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Than

Pessimism

" Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences. "

" Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen. "

" Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing. "

John Ortberg

Words

Sharing

" Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure out along with our congregations how we can incarnate the gospel in our community, or we will preach to a religious ghetto. "

John Ortberg

Community

Ghetto

" The church is in the hope business. "

" When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with. "

" Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all. "

" 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. "

" A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened. "

John Ortberg

See

Everyone

" 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

Care

Soul

" Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart. "

" You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody. "

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" 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. "

John Ortberg

Courage

Gift

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John Ortberg

Best

Worst

" In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison. "

John Ortberg

Feeling

Leave

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" I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism. "

" I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent. "