When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box Quotes

“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.”
― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.”
― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“Your 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.”
― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.”
― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“Being rich towards God means
...growing a soul that is increasingly healthy and good.
... loving and enjoying the people around you.
...learning about your gifts and passion and doing good work to improve the world.
...becoming generous with your stuff.
...making that which is temporary become the servant of that which is eternal.
...savoring every roll of the dice and every trip around the board.”
― John Ortberg, When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“There is a strange gift in aging. God, in his severe mercy, sends us daily reminders that the game will end.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“When God calls people to do something, their initial response is almost always fear. If there is a challenge in front of you, a course of action that could cause you to grow and that would be helpful to people around you, but you find yourself scared about it, there's a real good chance that God is in that challenge.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“I can buy baseball cards to view an entire career on the back of a little square of cardboard. But nobody sells major league father cards with key statistics on the back (“Had a great season in 2005: set career highs in unforced expressions of affection and averaged 87 minutes of quality time per day.”)”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“Men have succeeded in accumulating
a greater mass of objects,
but the joy in the world has grown less.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY1”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“If a man hasn’t discovered
something that he will die for,
he isn’t fit to live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“We need to ask ourselves what we are doing (or not doing) with our lives now that could lead to deep regret.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“Giving is an act of confidence in God.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“Winston Churchill lived into his nineties and said the only exercise he ever got was serving as a pallbearer for his friends who died while they were exercising.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“The anonymous1 author wrote, “Wherefore play the game of life warily, for your opponent is full of subtlety, and take abundant thought over your moves, for the stake is your soul.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“Gratitude is not something we give to God because he wants to make sure we know how much trouble he went to over us. Gratitude is the gift God gives us that enables us to be blessed by all his other gifts, the way our taste buds enable us to enjoy the gift of food. Without gratitude, our lives degenerate into envy, dissatisfaction, and complaints, taking what we have for granted and always wanting more.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box

“Etty spent her last days giving hope and care, “with a kind word for everyone she met on the way.” Her final words were written on a postcard and thrown off Wagon No. 12, the railroad car she rode to what she knew would be her death in Auschwitz. “We left camp singing,” she wrote. The Nazis took control of her possessions, her mobility, her work, her family, her body, and finally her life, yet she believed that they did not truly take anything at all.”
― John Ortberg Jr., When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box