John Ortberg Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

  John Ortberg

  Perseverance, Powerful, Disappointment

• 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

• Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

  John Ortberg

  Grace, Irrational, Offers

• True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

  John Ortberg

  Home, Grace, Despair

  John Ortberg (2008). “When the Game Is Over, It All Goes Back in the Box”, p.121, Zondervan

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