Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
JOHN ORTBERGGreatness is never achieved through indecision.
JOHN ORTBERGThe main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
JOHN ORTBERGThe possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.
JOHN ORTBERGThe harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.
JOHN ORTBERGArt 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.
JOHN ORTBERGWaiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERGNever try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
JOHN ORTBERGThe greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
JOHN ORTBERGThe Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
JOHN ORTBERGGod is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERGGod has entrusted us with his most precious treasure – people. He asks us to shepherd and mold them into strong disciples, with brave faith and good character.
JOHN ORTBERGJesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
JOHN ORTBERGThe test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
JOHN ORTBERGIf 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.
JOHN ORTBERGThe greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
JOHN ORTBERGGod 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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