Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
Author
Psychologist
Theologian
Rockford
Illinois
Away
Conformity
Must
Closer
Beliefs
Thoughts
Belief
Assess
Whether
Reckon
Christ
Discipleship
Moving
Farther

More quotes by John Ortberg

Image
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
John Ortberg
Image
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
John Ortberg
Image
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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
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 most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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
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
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
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
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
John Ortberg
Image
Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
John Ortberg
Image
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
John Ortberg
Image
We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?
John Ortberg
Image
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon, or Socrates, or Muhammad died, their reputations were immense. When Jesus died, his tiny, failed movement appeared clearly at an end.
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
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
John Ortberg
Image
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
John Ortberg