It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
JOHN ORTBERGWaiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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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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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
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If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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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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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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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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Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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