black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

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

Average Dangerous Faith Greatness Ourselves Version Willing
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
$John Ortberg Quote - You have a “turn” every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.$

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

Anand Thakur
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Choice Comfortable Decision Growth Life Risk Value
We’d like to be humble…but what if no one notices?
JOHN ORTBERG

Humble Notice Oneself
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
JOHN ORTBERG

Body Known Love
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure Respond Shape Way Yourself
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Goodness Heaven Human Life News Preach Yourself
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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

Bitter Hard Hate Judgmental People Spirituality Thinking
Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.
JOHN ORTBERG

Desire God Love Perfection Person Universe Work
Who you become while you’re waiting is as important as what you’re waiting for.
JOHN ORTBERG

Patience Time Transformation Wait Yourself
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He’s interested in our life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More John Ortberg Quotes