The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
JOHN ORTBERGThe 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
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