The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
JOHN ORTBERGYour world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
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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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Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
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Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
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Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
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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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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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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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To become truly free, you must surrender.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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