black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?

John Ortberg

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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Better Embrace Faith Fantasy Pain Reality
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam’s fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Big Life Yourself
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
JOHN ORTBERG

Influence Movement World
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Ortberg Quotes