Church Quote by John Ortberg Download Open image “Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.” — John Ortberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Church Inspirational May Sin
“I cannot help feeling that the final explanation of the state of the Church today is a defective sense of sin and it defective… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“People give way to sexual sin because they don’t have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy. If we understand the difference, we can avoid the pitfalls that entice the… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to understand that Christ has delivered him from… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them. — E. Stanley Jones 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
While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
If I had my brothers I think with just a little bit of the correct marketing, I'd like to be almost exclusively in small… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world. — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image