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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.
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- “Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recom…”John Ortberg
- “Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as…”John Ortberg
- “Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human…”John Ortberg
Despair: more sayings
- “The courage to continue before the face of despair is the recognition in those eyes of darkness we find our o…”Terry Tempest Williams
- “The studies of women's lives over time portray the role of crisis in transition and underline the possibiliti…”Carol Gilligan
- “And there are a lot of people like that, who feel loneliness and despair but cover it up.”Christina Pickles
War: more sayings
- “The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to t…”John Barrasso
- “I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust o…”Sander Levin
- “I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the…”Emir Kusturica
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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