John Ortberg

"Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior…

— John Ortberg

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most…

— John Ortberg

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

— John Ortberg

Failure is not an event, but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that happens to us or a…

— John Ortberg

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

— John Ortberg

My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.

— John Ortberg

Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against…

— John Ortberg

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

— John Ortberg

Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.…

— John Ortberg

“surrender is the glad and voluntary acknowledgment that there is a God and it is not me. His purposes are often wiser…

— John Ortberg

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to…

— John Ortberg

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude…

— John Ortberg

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I…

— John Ortberg

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

— John Ortberg

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

— John Ortberg

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives…

— John Ortberg

“Christianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.”

— John Ortberg

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

— John Ortberg

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

— John Ortberg

“The alternative to soul-acceptance is soul-fatigue. There is a kind of fatigue that attacks the body. When we stay up too late…

— John Ortberg

In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed…

— John Ortberg

“The paradox of soul-satisfaction is this: When I die to myself, my soul comes alive. God says the wrong approach to soul…

— John Ortberg

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

— John Ortberg

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough,…

— John Ortberg

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

— John Ortberg