Quote

We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.

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
Live
People
Tempted
Somewhere
Illusion
Normal

More quotes by 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
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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
If we do not become changed from the inside-out - if we don't morph - we will be tempted to find external methods to satisfy our need to feel that we're different from those outside the faith. If we cannot be transformed, we will settle for being informed or conformed.
John Ortberg
Image
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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
If ever there were a true just as I am church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.
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
Image
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
John Ortberg
Image
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
John Ortberg
Image
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
John Ortberg
Image
If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve.
John Ortberg
Image
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
John Ortberg
Image
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
John Ortberg