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

If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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
You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
JOHN ORTBERG

Elimination Hurry Life Patience Yourself
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
To become truly free, you must surrender.
JOHN ORTBERG

Freedom Surrender True
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called ‘spiritual mindlessness.’
JOHN ORTBERG

Failure God Hear Mindset Reason Spirituality Suffering
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

Anand Thakur
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

Anand Thakur
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
JOHN ORTBERG

Anand Thakur
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

Anand Thakur
The church is in the hope business.
JOHN ORTBERG

Business Hope One Liner

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