The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
JOHN ORTBERGRelated Topics
Anand Thakur
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
JOHN ORTBERG
The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God’s plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!
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
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it’s done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
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
Jesus associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERG
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
JOHN ORTBERG
We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
JOHN ORTBERG
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
JOHN ORTBERG
God is so immense that if he were ‘too visible,’ people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
JOHN ORTBERG
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
JOHN ORTBERG
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
JOHN ORTBERG
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
JOHN ORTBERG
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
JOHN ORTBERG