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My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.

~John Ortberg

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One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

~John Ortberg

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Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

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Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

~John Ortberg

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Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

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As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.

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I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

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The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

~John Ortberg

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Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

~John Ortberg

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Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

~John Ortberg

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: May 5th, 1957

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