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 doubt. Believing and doubting share the same inevitability, but they are not equal. They cannot lay the same claim on our allegiance. They do not share the same power.
If there are places beyond the cul-de-sac, doubt cannot take us there.
Even in the world today, it is often at the point where we are frustrated by the gap between fallen reality and our sense of God’s desires that we are moved to action in a cause greater than ourselves.
John OrtbergChristianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
John OrtbergMots clés suffering
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
John OrtbergMots clés disappointment leadership expectation-s
We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.
John OrtbergLove and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
John OrtbergYour Mission starts where you are,
Not where you think you should be.
Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
John OrtbergThe greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
John OrtbergMots clés god religion faith suffering
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
John OrtbergMots clés god faith trust skeptics
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