True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.
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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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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God 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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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.
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Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
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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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I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
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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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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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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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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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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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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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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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