The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
JOHN ORTBERGOver and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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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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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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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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 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.
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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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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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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For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we’re tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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