sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
JOHN ORTBERGRelated Topics
Anand Thakur
sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
JOHN ORTBERG
Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
JOHN ORTBERG
Make your life about something bigger than your life.
JOHN ORTBERG
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
We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
JOHN ORTBERG
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
JOHN ORTBERG
Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
JOHN ORTBERG
I’m more concerned about who you’re becoming than what you’re doing.
JOHN ORTBERG
Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
JOHN ORTBERG
The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.
JOHN ORTBERG
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
JOHN ORTBERG
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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
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.
JOHN ORTBERG
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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