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John Ortberg
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 5
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More quotes by John Ortberg
One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
John Ortberg
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
John Ortberg
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
John Ortberg
The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols my will may be enslaved to habits my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.
John Ortberg
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
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
John Ortberg
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
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
John Ortberg
Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.
John Ortberg
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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
We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
John Ortberg
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to seeking first the kingdom.
John Ortberg
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
I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
John Ortberg
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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
Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as the self stuffed with the self.
John Ortberg
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
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
John Ortberg
