John Ortberg Quotes About Transformation

Quotes about: Transformation

• 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

• I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Hate, Thinking

• Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Learning, Training

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.47, Harper Collins

• The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Goal, Transformation

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.24, Harper Collins

• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, People, Personality

• There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Mean, Differences

• The possibility of transformation is the essence of hope.

  John Ortberg

  Essence, Transformation, Possibility

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.23, Zondervan

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