John Ortberg Quotes

The Harder You Strike It, The Deeper It Goes.

"sometimes In Churches Somebody Will Discover A Particular Vein Of Spirituality And Seek To Recruit Others Into It, Or Assume A Superior Position Because They Have Found Certain Techniques - But No One Actually Wants To Become Like Them."

You Must Ruthlessly Eliminate Hurry From Your Life.

Significance Is About Who We Are Before It Is About What We Do.

Our Beliefs Are Not Just Estimates Of Probabilities. They Are Also The Instruments That Guide Our Actions.

Churches Can Become Places Of Cynicism, Resistance, And Pessimism.

Nobody Lives Up To The Norms That God Had In Mind When He First Created Human Beings.

We Are Too Often Double Espresso Followers Of A Decaf Sovereign.

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 Enormous Love, For Us To Live As If He Were Not There.

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 Have Become. I Have A Nagging Sense That All Is Not As It Should Be.

The Only Cure From Sin Is By Maintaining A Vision Of God.

The Life Of Abraham Lincoln Is By Most Accounts An Amazing Study In Character Formation. Yet He Was Notoriously Disorganized; He Even Had A File In His Law Office Labeled If You Can't Find It Anywhere Else, Try Looking Here.