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 Copy Share Image
The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents him as a single man… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something…Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Although the church has often been far too slow to follow his lead, Jesus' insistence that women, as well as men, bear… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away,… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“If I think God’s aim is to produce rule-followers, spiritual growth will always be an obligation rather than a desire of my… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Even you can’t tell yourself how to change, because you didn’t create you. To love someone is to desire and work toward… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“What do we do in the dark night? We do nothing. We wait. We remember that we are not God. We hold on. We… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The most important thing about you,” Dallas would often say, “is not the things that you achieve; it is the person that you become.” — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
