We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
JOHN ORTBERGIn reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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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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Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.
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Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.
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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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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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You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
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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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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 harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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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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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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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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What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.
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Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.
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