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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
John Ortberg
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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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More quotes by John Ortberg
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
John Ortberg
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
John Ortberg
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty rather, it is tenacious obedience.
John Ortberg
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
John Ortberg
Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
John Ortberg
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
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures they exist throughout life. When people were first made, our deepest longing was to know and be known. And after the Fall, when we all got weird, it's still our deepest longing - but it's now also our deepest fear.
John Ortberg
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
John Ortberg
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
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
John Ortberg
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
John Ortberg
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
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
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
John Ortberg
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
John Ortberg
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
John Ortberg
Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.
John Ortberg
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
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
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
John Ortberg