Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
JOHN ORTBERGRelated Topics
Anand Thakur
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
JOHN ORTBERG
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
JOHN ORTBERG
Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
JOHN ORTBERG
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
JOHN ORTBERG
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
JOHN ORTBERG
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.
JOHN ORTBERG
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.
JOHN ORTBERG
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
JOHN ORTBERG
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
JOHN ORTBERG
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
JOHN ORTBERG
Peace doesn’t come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
JOHN ORTBERG
Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
JOHN ORTBERG
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 ORTBERG
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
JOHN ORTBERG
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
JOHN ORTBERG
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
JOHN ORTBERG