Quote

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

John Ortberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Everyday
Confidence
Deep
Joy
Days
Must
Arrange
Life
Experiencing
Contentment

More quotes by John Ortberg

Image
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
John Ortberg
Image
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
John Ortberg
Image
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
John Ortberg
Image
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
John Ortberg
Image
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
John Ortberg
Image
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
John Ortberg
Image
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
John Ortberg
Image
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
John Ortberg
Image
I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.
John Ortberg
Image
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
John Ortberg
Image
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to seeking first the kingdom.
John Ortberg
Image
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
John Ortberg
Image
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty rather, it is tenacious obedience.
John Ortberg
Image
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
John Ortberg
Image
We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
John Ortberg
Image
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
John Ortberg
Image
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
John Ortberg
Image
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
John Ortberg
Image
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
John Ortberg
Image
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
John Ortberg