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
Must
Arrange
Life
Experiencing
Contentment
Everyday
Confidence
Deep
Joy
Days

More quotes by John Ortberg

Image
Every day you and I walk through God's shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
John Ortberg
Image
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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
We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus said that the life of the gospel is choked out by the cares of this world. We know this to be true yet we are more chained and tethered to the world than ever before in the human race.
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
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
John Ortberg
Image
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
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
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
John Ortberg
Image
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
John Ortberg
Image
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can't find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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
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
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
John Ortberg
Image
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
John Ortberg
Image
Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
John Ortberg
Image
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
John Ortberg
Image
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
John Ortberg