What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
JOHN ORTBERGIt’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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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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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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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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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.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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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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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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Self-improvement is no more God’s plan than self-salvation.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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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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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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