John Ortberg Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• 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.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Mean, Choices

  John Ortberg, Stephen Sorenson, Amanda Sorenson (2003). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: A 6-session Journey on Learning to Trust God”, p.32, Zondervan

• 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 still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Pain, Choices

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.198, Zondervan

• You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

  John Ortberg

  Opportunity, Choices, Tiny

• At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.100, Harper Collins

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