John Ortberg - People Quotes

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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.

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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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God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

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

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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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

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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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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

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True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

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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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