Quote

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

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
Never
Remaining
Obedient
Doubts
Questions
Doubt
Faith
Doe
Mean

More quotes by John Ortberg

Image
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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
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
Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
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
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
John Ortberg
Image
True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
John Ortberg
Image
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
John Ortberg
Image
Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
John Ortberg
Image
To become truly free, you must surrender.
John Ortberg
Image
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
Image
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
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
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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
Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters call me to be my best self appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success
John Ortberg
Image
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
John Ortberg
Image
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
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
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
John Ortberg