John Ortberg Quotes

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Your Mission starts where you are,Not where you think you should be.Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success

There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God.

If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

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

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

To become truly free, you must surrender.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.