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
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
John Ortberg
Image
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
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
The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
John Ortberg
Image
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
John Ortberg
Image
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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
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
Image
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
John Ortberg
Image
You have a turn every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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
Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
John Ortberg
Image
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
John Ortberg
Image
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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 changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
John Ortberg
Image
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
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