John Ortberg Quotes - Page 7

Quotes about:

• Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Movement, World

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  John Ortberg

  Art, Jesus, Hate

  4 Copy quote

• Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, Thinking, Watches

  7 Copy quote

• In the beginning, we're told, was the word. Every once in a while someone shows up on the planet who is word-obsessed and word-gifted; and the light and darkness get named again. In our day, that someone is Buechner.

  John Ortberg

  Light, Darkness, Obsessed

  6 Copy quote

• When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

  John Ortberg

  Humble, Thinking, Self

  7 Copy quote

• One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.

  John Ortberg

  Loneliness, Support, Empathy

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.214, Harper Collins

  6 Copy quote

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

  John Ortberg

  Life Changing, Done, Preaching

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  John Ortberg

  Hurt, People, Perfect

  5 Copy quote

• We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.

  John Ortberg

  Book, People, Tools

  4 Copy quote

• Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

  John Ortberg

  Who We Are, Significance

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  John Ortberg

  Character, Law, Office

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.58, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

• "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."

  John Ortberg

  Church, Veins, Want

  4 Copy quote

• The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

  John Ortberg

  Vision, Maintaining, Sin

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  John Ortberg

  Heart, People, Giving

  7 Copy quote

• Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

  John Ortberg

  Church, Resistance, Pessimism

  4 Copy quote

Page 7 of 7

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin