If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in… — 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
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart. — 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
If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around. — 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
Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped. — 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
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls… — 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
