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.
JOHN ORTBERGOne reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
More John Ortberg Quotes
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
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The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
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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.
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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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