Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
JOHN ORTBERGA boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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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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When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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The 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!
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Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
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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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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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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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