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Spiritual Quotes by John Ortberg
- Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.
- One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human…
- God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.
- We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating constant anxiety. Jesus…
- One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'
- 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…
- 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,…
- There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and…
- Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
- A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives.
- Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
- This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations.…
- Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really,…
- Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.
- I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.
- In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
More Spiritual Quotes
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic. — Dan Aykroyd
- Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles,… — Sai Baba
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach