True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
JOHN ORTBERGThere is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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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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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.
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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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Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
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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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To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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 ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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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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Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus.
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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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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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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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