black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

John Ortberg

Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Fear God Obedience People Threat Trust
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERG

Business Hope One Liner
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.
JOHN ORTBERG

Goal Live Separate Time
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure Mission Need
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.
JOHN ORTBERG

Difficult Doubt Faith Necessary Serene
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Ortberg Quotes