To become truly free, you must surrender.
JOHN ORTBERGYou must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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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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At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
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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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Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
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The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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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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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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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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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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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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