Quotes by John Ortberg

“We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.”

“Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to d...”

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

“The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.”

“A pastor struggled for years with sexual addiction, eventually becoming so despondent that hospitalized himself. He joined an inpatient group and was mostly silent as others shared.When he decided ...”

“...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.”

“...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.”

“Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.”

“Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.”

“No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel”

“God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction o...”

“Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.”

“Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.”

“Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Stop. Adam's fellowship with God was perfect, and God Himself declared Adam needed other humans.”

“A deep soul lives in conscious awareness of eternity, not simply today.”

“Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.”

“When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.”

“Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your d...”

“Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.”

“Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.”