John Ortberg Quotes

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• The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
• Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
• If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.
• We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
• 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 still…
• 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…
• Normally, if someone's legacy will outlast their life, it's apparent when they die. On the day when Alexander the Great, or Caesar Augustus, or Napoleon,…
• Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not,…
• I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I…
• To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can…
• Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to…
• God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in…
• The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of…
• We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each…
• Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being…
• As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
• Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what…
• 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…
• God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it…
• There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means…

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