You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
JOHN ORTBERGFor 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.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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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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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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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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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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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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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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Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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