Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Choices
Ultimate
Values
Comfort
Jesus
Choice
Means
Value
Follower
Must
Grow
Discipleship
Mean
Risk
Renounce
Always
Decision
Involves
Life
Grows
Followers

More quotes by John Ortberg

Image
Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it's a very good thing they are alive.
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
Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as the self stuffed with the self.
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
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
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
John Ortberg
Image
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
John Ortberg
Image
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
John Ortberg
Image
Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
John Ortberg
Image
It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
John Ortberg
Image
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good the God of the open door.
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
To become truly free, you must surrender.
John Ortberg
Image
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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
God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.
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
In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.
John Ortberg
Image
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
John Ortberg
Image
I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
John Ortberg