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About John Ortberg
American evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor
John Carl Ortberg Jr. is an American evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor. He served for 17 years as senior pastor of Menlo Church in Menlo Park, California. Ortberg is known for writing and speaking on Christian faith and for his work in church leadership. Menlo Church is an ECO Presbyterian congregation, and during his tenure it had more than 4,000 members.
More from John Ortberg (135 quotes) →More quotes by John Ortberg
- “Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.”John Ortberg
- “Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.”John Ortberg
- “It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.”John Ortberg
- “The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries…”John Ortberg
Explore Pessimism
- “Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle…”Ron Fournier
- “There is nothing to be got in the world anywhere; privation and pain pervade it, and boredom lies in wait at…”Arthur Schopenhauer
- “So it is that supernatural horror is the product of a profoundly divided species of being. It is not the past…”Thomas Ligotti
Leadership: more sayings
- “But I would not have been the leader that I hoped to be if I hadn't put my name forward to represent this com…”Annamie Paul
- “What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer…”James Wolcott
- “What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.”Bob Iger
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Books by John Ortberg
God Is Closer Than You Think
2005
When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box
2007
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
2005
The life you've always wanted
1997
Soul keeping
2014