In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. — 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
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom." — 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
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“If your soul is healthy, no external circumstance can destroy your life. If your soul is unhealthy, no external circumstance can redeem… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a… — 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
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
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even… — 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
“The “with God” life is not a life of more religious activities or devotions or trying to be good. It is a… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“The soul without a center finds its identity in externals. My temptation when my soul is not centered in God is to… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life. — 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
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
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
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“I was operating on the unspoken assumption that my inner world would be filled with life, peace, and joy once my external… — 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 much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against… — 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
