Who Is This Man? Quotes

“Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“It is in Jesus’ name that desperate people pray, grateful people worship, and angry people swear. From christenings to weddings to sickrooms to funerals, it is in Jesus’ name that people are hatched, matched, patched, and dispatched.”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“The child in Bethlehem would grow up to be a friend of sinners, not a friend of Rome. He would spend his life with the ordinary and the unimpressive. He would pay deep attention to lepers and cripples, to the blind and the beggar, to prostitutes and fishermen, to women and children. He would announce the availability of a kingdom different from Herod’s, a kingdom where blessing—of full value and worth with God—was now conferred on the poor in spirit and the meek and the persecuted.”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“One of the most impressive aspects of Jesus is how he was impressed by unimpressive people.”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Christianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Jesus would make available to the world the great teaching of Israel: ethical monotheism. There is one God, and he is the source and judge of all that is good. This”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Of course the presence of hypocrites within a movement does not prove that the movement itself is in error.”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Religious hypocrisy is one of the great barriers to faith for any thoughtful person. Why become a Christian when the church is filled with so many hypocrites and deeply flawed people? Mark”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Two great questions are often posed about worthwhile living: Who has the good life? and Who is a good person? The first question gets addressed in ads, the second at funerals. Two”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Similarly, a boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee. Even”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“What is it that made it possible for science to emerge in the human race?” His answer was fascinating: “It’s the medieval insistence on the rationality of God.” Because if you believe creation was made by a rational God, it will lead to fundamentally different assumptions than if you started with the idea that it’s just a random accident. This”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“This is a beautiful vision that everyone should learn: that ignorance is the devil’s tool, that God is the God of truth. George”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Jesus began to teach anyone who would listen regardless of gender status or age. Whatever”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“The record of his life and teaching, the Gospels, have impacted the world so much that they have been translated into 2,527 languages. The second-most-translated book, Don Quixote, has been translated into about 60 languages. The”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Brilliant intellects do not matriculate to study under someone dumber than themselves. Paul recognized Jesus as master of the intellect, above him in every way.”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Where the faith has too much money and too much power for too long it begins to spoil,”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

“Wolterstorff gives an amazing answer: the teaching of the Scriptures, clarified and made available to all the world through Jesus, that every human being is made in the image of God, and loved by God. There”
― John Ortberg, Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus