When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

John Ortberg
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More Quotes By John Ortberg
  1. If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

  2. When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

  3. Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.

  4. 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.

  5. So it goes for those of us who live in a cul-de-sac, where babies are brought home from the hospital and watched over, where hearts stop and feet slip, where we wonder if there is a hidden road that leads somewhere. We believe and we...

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