At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.
JOHN ORTBERGSloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done – like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.
More John Ortberg Quotes
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If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
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Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt. It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up – as we do what is expected of us, and then some.
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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
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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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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Make your life about something bigger than your life.
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You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.
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We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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