The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life. — 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
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
I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls.… — 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
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
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
The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you. — 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
“Your soul is what integrates your will (your intentions), your mind (your thoughts and feelings, your values and conscience), and your body… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self;… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Gordon MacDonald once wrote about how what he called the “sinkhole syndrome” happens in a human life. It may be triggered by… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“People will look different when I see them with God. People are a huge part of the “with God” life, because we… — 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
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
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
The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life. — 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
Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a… — 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
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
“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
