Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
JOHN ORTBERGThe Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
More John Ortberg Quotes
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
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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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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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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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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
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The 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.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
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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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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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