Quote

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

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
Soul
Strangest
Reason
Exceeds
Life
Exceed
Souls
Hunger
Dreams
Living
Dream

More quotes by John Ortberg

Image
Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.
John Ortberg
Image
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
John Ortberg
Image
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
John Ortberg
Image
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
John Ortberg
Image
There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.
John Ortberg
Image
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
John Ortberg
Image
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
John Ortberg
Image
It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
John Ortberg
Image
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
John Ortberg
Image
To become truly free, you must surrender.
John Ortberg
Image
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
John Ortberg
Image
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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
We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
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
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
John Ortberg
Image
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
John Ortberg
Image
There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit
John Ortberg
Image
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
John Ortberg
Image
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
John Ortberg